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.
Not exact matches
HENRY TAYLOR (Born 1958 in Oxnard, Calif.; lives in Los Angeles) His early portraits of patients
at Camarillo State Mental
Hospital in California, where he worked as a
psychiatric technician from 1984 to 1994, were featured in his solo shows
at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2007 and
at MoMA PS1 in 2012.
While attending the California Institute of the Arts, Taylor worked as a
psychiatric technician at the Camarillo State
Hospital.
Taylor, born 1958, began his carreer in art studying
at the California Institute of the Arts while working the swing shift as a
psychiatric technician at Camarillo State
Hospital.
«It was Henry's earliest body of work, created when he was a
psychiatric technician at Camarillo State
Hospital,» says Lipschutz, referring to the paintings and drawings Taylor created in the 1980s and early»90s, before the artist had cemented his reputation as a painter.
In the early 1970s, while working as a
technician and yoga / dance teacher
at a short - term
psychiatric hospital, Pat Ogden became interested in the correlation between her clients» disconnection from their bodies, their physical patterns and their psychological issues.