THE PROCESS OF AN
ARTIST’S MIND
Carol Taylor-Kearney
September 10 – 26, 2020
Gallery hours: Thursdays – Saturdays; 12:00pm-6:00pm
Coming off stay-at-home orders, we are all too familiar with the experience of being trapped in a space. In her upcoming exhibition at Atlantic Gallery, Carol Taylor-Kearney: The Process of an Artist’s Mind, Ms. Taylor-Kearney explores this through depictions of a single room– her studio.
For Carol Taylor-Kearney, the studio is both a place and a thinking space where artworks come into being. Using the “Zimmerbild”, or “Room Portrait”, she contemplates notions on Visual Art: its language, materials, subjects and history. She then makes “window paintings” that allow observers to follow along with her mental connections.
“For me,” Taylor-Kearney says, “the studio represents a workplace and a mental space for ruminating about a concept, and provides the motif for my paintings. I collect snippets from mass media, art history, literature, conversations, encounters, memories, and dreams. All these things connect to the debris that I pick up.”
This body of work includes large factory windows and even two full doors, and has been created intermittently over the last decade of Taylor-Kearney’s life. While it addresses her artistic process, it also examines the impact of life events within this physical and mental space. For example, her feelings before-during-after open heart surgery, the effect of her juvenile diabetes on her as she ages, our objectification and voyeurism of the nude body (nude v. naked), ecology and climate change, female perspective, and even sleep.
Carol Taylor-Kearney: The Process of an Artist’s Mind will show at Atlantic Gallery August 9th through August 29th. The gallery will have limited hours on Thursday through Saturday, 12 PM to 6PM.
Appointments are preferred, and can be made through the Atlantic Gallery website, www.AtlanticGallery.org. All artwork and video walk-throughs can be found on the gallery’s website as well as Atlantic Gallery’s Facebook page and Instagram @AtlanticGalleryNYC. Additionally, Taylor-Kearney has her own website
www.taylor-kearneyarts.com and a blog at
www.whatsartblog.com. You may also find more information on Ms. Taylor-Kearney via her
Instagram @caroltaylorkearney, Twitter @caroltaylork, or her YouTube channel.
