Alison Elizabeth Taylor: Future Promise: Gallery Exhibition at 48 Walker Street

In Future Promise, Taylor departs from the familiar scenes of her native Southwest to reflect moments of day-to-day life around her home and studio in Brooklyn during the COVID-19 pandemic. Collectively, the works in Future Promise comprise a love letter to the resilience of a neighborhood and a community, translated through Taylor’s empathetic and incisive eye.

All the works in Future Promise are made in a novel medium the artist describes as “marquetry hybrid,” which she developed by combining wood veneer marquetry with painted wood, photographic prints she shoots while sketching, and painted passages on panel. Taylor’s complex pictorial spaces often work with this visually dense medium to create a destabilizing viewing experience.

Statuary Inc., allows us to peer into the warehouse of a wholesaler of statuettes used in pursuit of spiritual practices, a glimpse of the continuing commerce of an “essential” industry observed while the city was at a standstill.

Other paintings show more intimate moments, such as On Thinking Thoughts are Feelings, in which a pregnant woman and her partner lounge in bed. In this work, Taylor conveys a moment in which the interior landscape becomes the only world that exists.

In conjunction with the exhibition, Alison Elizabeth Taylor has produced three woodblock prints with The Adachi Institute of Woodcut Prints in Tokyo, Japan.  Each image is taken from one of Taylor's previously made, original works. 

Raised in Las Vegas, Alison Elizabeth Taylor (b. 1972 in Selma, AL) is known for transforming the historic technique of marquetry to create marquetry hybrid: a novel synthesis of media and process that incorporates inlaid wood, painting, and collaged textures to create a new perspective on painting.

 In 2022, Taylor will be the subject of her first major museum survey exhibition. Organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Massachusetts, this touring exhibition will open at Des Moines Art Center in October 2022 with more than 40 career-spanning works. The show will be accompanied by a comprehensive catalog published by DelMonico Books with essays by Naomi Fry, Lynne Tillman and Allison Kemmerer.

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