ANDREW TAYLOR - OUTSIDE: THE PERIPHERY AT HEATHER JAMES FINE ART, PALM DESERT, CA
Andrew Taylor, Outside: Honey, 2012, oil on canvas, 60 x 60 in.
February 7, 2012 - Palm Desert, CA - Heather James Fine Art is pleased to present Andrew Taylor - Outside: The Periphery . The exhibition is on view February 18 - March 2012 with an opening reception on Saturday February 18, 6-8 pm. For more information, please contact Jim Carona at jim@heatherjames.com. Andrew Taylor's lush and iridescent paintings of nature are manifested from looking at things from the periphery. He paints the overlooked environment around us that we see but do not consciously focus our attention on. He describes the subjects in his paintings as “The things we look through when we think we should be looking somewhere else.” Taylor wants to capture the ephemeral moments in-between, when one's eye wistfully travels from image to image. The indistinct moments he extracts create a dialogue, like an ecosystem within each painting, allowing the images to survive and thrive through their enduring relationship to each other. His paintings showcase a bold, multi-dimensional color palette as Taylor layers flora of different hues to imply depth and perspective and essentially give the viewer the illusion of peering through nature, perceptively commenting on the elusiveness of the environment around us. Andrew Taylor received his BFA from the Victorian College of the Arts in his hometown of Melbourne, Australia in 1987. Taylor’s art career is marked by international recognition and wide critical acclaim with his paintings included in collections such as The Australian National University, Artbank, and The Public National Gallery of Victoria. Heather James Fine Art is located at 45188 Portola Avenue in Palm Desert and features a wide array of art ranging from Impressionist and Modern art to Post-War and Contemporary, American, Latin American, Old Master, Photography and Design. For more information about the gallery and upcoming exhibitions, please visit our website www.heatherjames.com or contact the gallery at 760-346-8926.