{"id":23991,"date":"2015-02-02T16:43:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T21:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=23991"},"modified":"2015-02-10T08:14:58","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T13:14:58","slug":"taylor-mckimens-opens-at-bright-lyons-tues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2015\/02\/02\/taylor-mckimens-opens-at-bright-lyons-tues\/","title":{"rendered":"~TAYLOR McKIMENS . . OPENS at BRIGHT LYONS, CHELSEA POP-UP"},"content":{"rendered":"

TAYLOR McKIMENS . . COMMISSIONS BY BRIGHT LYONS, 2008-2015
\nopens TUES FEB 3, 2015 \/ 6-9PM
\nthe show runs FEB 3 – 17, 2015 – so don’t<\/strong> blink !!
\nBRIGHT LYONS<\/a> – 455 WEST 19th ST – CHELSEA, NYC
\nnote: the Chelsea street address for this event !!<\/p>\n

this is TAYLOR’S first solo show in NYC since his solo project, ‘SOFT SERVE’ at DEITCH PROJECTS in 2008.<\/p>\n

here’s the low down:
\nTAYLOR McKIMENS . . is a great painter, right up there, and I have been a huge fan since day 1, it’s almost 15 years since we first crossed paths, and it’s been great fun to watch his work grow, and unfold. this is a painter’s painter . . very smart. a very tough mix that manages to be both fantastic yet hard-edged ‘story-book’, and yet absolute gritty & realist . . it’s most definite: painting, mixed further, as in hot & heavy . . with brilliant gestural color and flourishes, embellished by a desert dry wit, and dripping . . comic book ethos.<\/p>\n

dare I say the ‘poster’ image below – is a kind of ‘selfie’, if not exactly a self-portrait, certainly a portrait within Taylor’s private world. so a ‘selfie’ – by extension ?
\nwhat makes it read ‘selfie’ to me – is the way the face confronts the viewer, challenging, maybe even hiding – but dead pan: “what am I thinking”, “what do you<\/strong> think – gazing upon me” ?
\nwhat worlds open up – between us.
\nwhat worlds, what ‘bookmarks’ – of time and place are thus archived, noted, and illuminated.
\nwhat of the boundary . . between you and .. me ?
\ncan you see through me ?
\nor is that, can you see through . . to me ?
\nor do I only mark a point – in time and space.<\/p>\n

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and for those of you who flew by this post, without hitting that BRIGHT LYONS<\/a> link, I just wanted to make sure . . you saw this !!
\neven a funny desert CACTUS, is a selfie x selfie x cactus, in TAYLOR’S hands !!
\nhello world, I’m a . . cactus.
\nnow what ?<\/p>\n

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TAYLOR McKIMENS . . COMMISSIONS BY BRIGHT LYONS, 2008-2015 opens TUES FEB 3, 2015 \/ 6-9PM the show runs FEB 3 – 17, 2015 – so don’t blink !! BRIGHT LYONS – 455 WEST 19th ST – CHELSEA, NYC note: the Chelsea street address for this event !! this is TAYLOR’S first solo show in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23991"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24024,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23991\/revisions\/24024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}