Taylor Crisp - Introduction

My name is Taylor Crisp, and I'm really excited to show you what I've been working on for the past few months. For me, the show is really about pushing the envelope in terms of my skills as a painter, really digging down into what attracted me to Western genre in the first place, and to get closer and closer to my true vision of the West. As someone who really grew up in the Western United States, it's always been really important to me to kind of express my love of the West and the Western landscapes and the Western mythos through whatever medium I was working in at the time, whether it was photography, writing, and now oil painting. Because above all, I'm always really trying to simplify that vision by taking away as much as possible while still having something that makes sense, like aesthetically and narratively, that you can say, "This expresses the West," but with as little information as you can possibly get away with, which is always really fun. As someone who works in the film industry, I'm lucky to have cinema as another really big inspiration on my artistic life and vision. I'm always trying to kind of meld my cinematic, narratively focused brain with my painter's brain to hopefully result in works that tell a story while also being decorative and aesthetically pleasing. I've really always been a big fan of kind of like the illustrators of the Golden Age when like they had intense technical skill, but at the same time they're telling a story with like every, every choice that they made. So I'm trying to do that in the show and going forward with new works in the future. I'm going to get back to it. In the meantime, I really hope you enjoyed the show and I will see you at the next one.