Alison Elizabeth Taylor - These Days - Exhibitions

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Installation view, Alison Elizabeth Taylor: These Days, James Cohan, 48 Walker Street, NY, May 17 - June 24, 2023

Installation view, Alison Elizabeth Taylor: These Days, James Cohan, 48 Walker Street, NY, May 17 - June 24, 2023

Installation view, Alison Elizabeth Taylor: These Days, James Cohan, 48 Walker Street, NY, May 17 - June 24, 2023

Installation view, Alison Elizabeth Taylor: These Days, James Cohan, 48 Walker Street, NY, May 17 - June 24, 2023

Installation view, Alison Elizabeth Taylor: These Days, James Cohan, 48 Walker Street, NY, May 17 - June 24, 2023

ALISON ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Decision Fatigue, 2022

Marquetry hybrid

23 7/8 x 21 1/8 in
60.6 x 53.7 cm

JCG15240

ALISON ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Cheryl Before She Left for Maine 2020, 2022

Marquetry Hybrid

67 1/4 x 55 in
170.8 x 139.7 cm

JCG15235

ALISON ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Javier and Will in CDMX, 2022

Marquetry hybrid

56 x 47 3/4 in
142.2 x 121.3 cm

JCG15236

ALISON ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Guitar Her, 2022

Marquetry hybrid

35 1/8 x 43 7/8 in
89.2 x 111.4 cm

JCG15237

ALISON ELIZABETH TAYLOR

At the Wedding, 2022

Marquetry hybrid

20 x 17 1/2 in
50.8 x 44.5 cm

JCG15239

ALISON ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Try Us, 2022

Marquetry hybrid

85 x 53 in.
215.9 x 134.6 cm

JCG13944

ALISON ELIZABETH TAYLOR

The Residency, 2022

Marquetry hybrid

42 x 51 in
106.7 x 129.5 cm

JCG15238

ALISON ELIZABETH TAYLOR

The Hotel’s Pool, 2023

Marquetry hybrid

93 3/4 x 130 1/4 in
238.1 x 330.7 cm

JCG15242

ALISON ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Sawdust and Glitter, 2022

Marquetry hybrid

50 x 75 in.
127 x 190.5 cm

JCG14731

ALISON ELIZABETH TAYLOR

My Untutored Pleasure, 2022

Marquetry hybrid

19 x 14 1/4 in
48.3 x 36.2 cm

JCG15241

ALISON ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Tiger’s Spread, 2023

Marquetry hybrid

41 5/8 x 58 7/8 in
105.7 x 149.5 cm

JCG15243

ALISON ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Bathers, 2022

Marquetry Hybrid

20 3/4 x 15 1/4 in
52.7 x 38.7 cm

JCG14770

Press Release

James Cohan is pleased to present These Days, an exhibition of new work by Alison Elizabeth Taylor, on view at 48 Walker Street from May 17 through June 24, 2023. This is Taylor’s seventh solo exhibition with James Cohan. The gallery will host an opening reception with the artist on Friday, May 19 from 6-8 PM.

Over the past twenty years, Taylor’s highly original approach to marquetry and image making has challenged conventional assumptions about art and the definition of painting. These Days reflects life in a post-pandemic America, where vacations, social gatherings, video game arcades and public gambling have returned. In this new era, these works pose the question “what has changed?” Drawing from life, Taylor’s subjects hail from cities as diverse as Brooklyn, Las Vegas, and Mexico City. Portraits of the artist’s friends and family who departed New York during the pandemic are intermixed with scenes that capture the decadence and spectacle of Southwestern casino culture and the grit of Brooklyn’s stoops and storefronts. Whether depicting moments of late capitalist indulgence in her hometown of Las Vegas or the struggle to survive in her chosen home of New York, Taylor’s sharp social observation and empathy for her subjects come to the fore.

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