Istomina begins: «Henry Taylor's painting has often been discussed in the context of outsider art not only because of his vivid and somewhat reductive figuration, but because of his biography: the youngest of eight children raised by a single mother in Oxnard, California, he held several jobs unrelated to art, including a ten - year
stint as a technician
at a
psychiatric hospital, and didn't earn his BFA until he was in his mid-thirties.
Henry Taylor's painting has often been discussed in the context of outsider art not only because of his vivid and somewhat reductive figuration, but because of his biography: the youngest of eight children raised by a single mother in Oxnard, California, he held several jobs unrelated to art, including a ten - year
stint as a technician
at a
psychiatric hospital, and didn't earn his BFA until he was in his mid-thirties.