Taylor Fine Art presents
Solo Art Exhibition COLORED IN THE LINES – Taylor Thomas
Exhibition Dates: July 5th – July 26th, 2025
Opening Night: Saturday July 6th 2025, 7 – 10 PM
Using the colors found in the television color bar and abstracted pixelation, “Colored in the Lines” offers an interpolative take on Black identity and the Black Family through the mediated lens of Film & Television media.
Artist Statement
My work investigates the ways in which public and private notions of Blackness and the Black family are formed through embodied experience and attempted reproduction of said experience through Film & Television media. Sourced from my personal photo archive and the public archive of industry trade publications, I question the influence of external representational systems on Black interiority.
My color palette, an interpolative nod to the television color bar, as well as my use of chrome and pixelation, abstract my source material from the personal to the public, referencing the larger representational systems that have struggled to “accurately” represent Blackness. I use these visual tools to call attention to the fallacy of entertainment media to fully realize marginalized identities. Instead, I reference the parts that make up the whole, and the spaces between legibility and abstraction that might inspire connection.
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