RICHARD TAYLOR received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee in 1991. He has been the recipient of many Public Commissions, and works for Municipal Collections and Percent for Art Projects.

RICHARD TAYLOR’S painted steel wall-sculptures are inner-looking meditations on places he has traveled to or in which he has lived. Found objects from these locations become the language in which to address the multiple questions and observations a traveler encounters. TAYLOR’S wall sculptures have a delicacy combined with a muscularity that gives the work great pictorial strength. They are somewhere between painting and sculpture. On their surfaces TAYLOR seamlessly juxtaposes elegant scribbling with cruder and harsher marks. At the same time certain painted areas are imbued with the ghosts of previously made marks. Time plays an essential part in these works, as they are not so much about the details of the past, as they are about the essence of the more broadly defined persisting memories. Their relatively small sizes reflect a less public, more intimate notion of communication than TAYLOR’S larger pieces of sculpture.