GOOD MORNING DAVE | CURTIS TAYLOR

6/5 - 9/5, 2021

The Dab Art Co. is pleased to present Good Morning Dave, a solo exhibition of photographs by California based artist Curtis Taylor. An expansion of Taylor’s popular 3D work, Good Morning Dave moves beyond the physical limitations of his sculptural work and emphasizes the spatial dynamics of positive and negative imagery. 

The serendipitous fruition of this exhibition is the contemporary art fallout of an experimental pinhole camera project, wooden monolith and calamitous road trip to the midwest during a year in pandemia. Good Morning Dave is a paradoxical, but perfectly timed execution of a project gone both wrong and right. 

The title Good Morning Dave seemed fitting as the literal and allegorical parallels between Kubriks’ Space Odyssey 2001 and the unconventional creative journey Taylor embarked on in 2020 were realized. In 2001, HAL’s A.I. advanced until it circumvented it’s inventors. The unintentional evolution and final presentation of this exhibition proposed similar discord for Curtis Taylor as he considered the possibility that the art no longer belonged to the artist. 

The final collection of prints presented for Good Morning Dave is a mesmerizing visual frontier of Taylor’s enigmatic perspective on spontaneity, adaptation and perseverance.

Good Morning Dave is an Online Exclusive Exhibit viewable on ARTSY June 5th thru September 5, 2021.

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CURTIS TAYLOR

As a printmaker, Curtis has experience with many printmaking techniques from screen printing to solar plates and intaglio to photo lithography. His current body of work revolves around “modular printmaking” or the practice of creating separate, unrelated plates and then printing them together to create unique monoprints. Incorporating other techniques into his printmaking is important to him and adds context and content to his prints. Curtis embraces his fascination with process and strives to adapt printmaking techniques, concepts and process to painting, photography, sculpture and video.

My work acknowledges the contrasts between hard edge abstraction’s austere formalism and the expressive textures and luminescent color fields of abstract expressionism. Overlapping stencils to produce fluid, interconnected layers allows me to quickly compose, freely react to previous marks, and establish a unique visual vocabulary within each series. Serendipity exposes intriguing shape associations that define relationships of non-referential shapes. I transform the shapes created through this generative process into large-scale, hard-edge abstract sculptures which complete each installation by expanding the conversation between artworks and reiterating forms and colors contained within the two-dimensional works.