Objective:
I seek gallery representation for one of four bodies of physical work:
Max Paul Taylor
Self-taught Brut/Naïve Ambitious/Curious Dedicated/Resourceful
The piece up top is the first Painting I ever made. I’m serious. Two years ago I could barely draw stick figures.
Rewind three more and I was a career Investment Banker thoughtfully parched of all creativity. Art, I believed, was a waste of time. How wrong I was. Art is everything.
I am unleashed. Across mediums and styles I explore. I seek a partner for career development of the following areas of my exploration.
Liquid Light Photography
Elegant/Sexy/Dark/Mysterious
No one alive uses the techniques I do. It’s an amalgamation of alternative darkroom processes. A secret knowledge learned from forgotten books. Refined to my own approach. Large hand-made photographic prints on canvas.
My photography has been featured Vogue to National Geographic. It is my most proficient medium combined with a unique process yielding incomparable results. I would challenge all to replicate.
Primitive
Earthy/Raw/Natural
Smashed rocks and Rabbit Glue.
Mortar and Pestle.
Cochineal Bugs mixed with Lemon juice, Marigold Flowers, Charcoal, Dirt, Pure Indigo,
Rocks of various colors and the flora of Brooklyn.
Painted Dreams
Aggressive/Ambitious/Surreal
Why I chose to learn.
In a dream I walked the gallery halls of every painting I have never made.
Flickers from the subconcious domain. They will all be made.
I love biting off more than I can chew. I elevate with every attempt, pursuing creation far beyond my technical skill level.
I am two years in with decades to go.
Monster Laboratory
Fun/Playful
A Sharpie with Commitment Issues and An Ostrich with A Dream.
A lowbrow visual outlet pursued between attempts at my more ambitious works.
Every piece has a poem. Every piece is an area of technical study where I let loose on pressure, and play
You know what’s fun about the above three for me? Technically they are photographs…. of sketches lifted from newsprint, printed through light and chemistry in my darkroom and imbued with color using dirt, glue, oil, and anything else that seemed fun to include. An impermanent design made archival through an obscurely complex process that brings me right back to where I started.
The Future
Is big and bright. I head next to Germany for an artist residency at the Berlin Art Institute.
Cheers,
Max
Abbreviated CV
2014 - Quit Corporate Finance/ Identity Crisis Pt. 1
2015 - Bought a Camera | Won a $15,000 photography prize
2016 - Identity Crisis Volume II: Despair!
2017 - Started creating physically in the darkroom
2018 - Started Drawing
2019 - Started Painting/Published my first book
2020 - Dogged Pursuit | Trapped in France | I LOVE THIS
2021 - Three solo exhibitions in NYC
2022 - Amazon, Pakistan, Nepal. Learned to track tigers. Climbed mountains.
2023 - Living in Istanbul. Deported from Istanbul. Living in Amsterdam. Painting like a madman.
Solo Exhibitions
- October 2021 | Solo Exhibition | Thirty Six Gallery, NY
- September 2021 | Solo Painting Exhibition | Bowery Union, NYC
- Summer 2021 | Solo Photography Exhibition | Bushwick Darkroom, NYC
- December 2019 | Solo Painting Exhibition | Con Artist Collective | NYC
- March/April 2019 | Solo Photography Exhibition | Bushwick Darkroom, NYC
- January 2017 | Solo Multi-media Exhibition | Private Event, NYC
Group Shows
- May 2021 | Emulsions | The Holy Art, London - March 2020 | Art Residency Open Studios | Chateau Orquevaux, France - July 2019 | Constitution | Con Artist Collective, NYC - January 2019 | Surrealism Group Show | Bowery Union, NYC - December 2018 | ‘Ovals’ Group Show | Bowery Union, NYC - November 2018 | ‘Abstract’ Group Show | Con Artist Collective, NYC - October 2018 | Halloween Show | Con Artist Collective, NYC - September 2018 | Virago Show - Hosted by Dr. Linda Dahl, NYC - August 2018 | Residency Showcase - Con Artist Collective, NYC - June 2018 | ‘Abstract’ Group Show - Con Artist Collective, NYC - April 2018 | ‘Bones’ Group Show - Con Artist Collective, NYC
Artist Residency:
- Berlin Art Institute, Germany - April 2022
- Iasi Art Residency, Romania - May 2022
- Château Orquevaux, France, March - August 2020
- Exile, Siargao, Philippines, Winter 2020
- Con Artist Residency, NYC, April
- December 2019 - ACE HOTEL RESIDENCY - March 2019
- Exile, Siargao, Philippines, Winter 2019
- Bushwick Darkroom, NYC, Fall 2018
- Maderas Village, Nicaragua, Spring 2016
Shows:
20+ group shows | NYC
Solo Exhibition at The Bushwick Darkroom | NYC
Solo Exhibition at Con Artist NYC
Three additional self produced solo exhibitions | NYC
Featured Work at The Yellowstone Art Museum
ARTIST STATEMENT
I am self taught through constant experimentation
I am a writer and a poet, and I make visual art
I write dark comedy as essays
My poetry is more fun than secrets
My Art is surrealist in drawing, painting, and printmaking
I used to work in corporate finance
But a whale shark changed my life
Now I explore, in body and mind
Across mediums and ideas
The moment I decided to leave finance. That whaleshark is the size of a bus. A true leviathan.
