October 23–November 21, 2020
Steve Turner is pleased to present Dream Logic, a solo online exhibition featuring recent works by New York-based Kiyomi Quinn Taylor that combine drawing, painting and collage to form fantasy narratives which conflate family history with dinosaurs and Star Trek. She utilizes an archive of family photographs from the 1950s to 1970s which features African American relatives in New York, and Washington State and Japanese ones in Fukuoka, Japan. All four of her grandparents are frequently featured in her work because she sees them “as the genetic contributors and the emotional shapers of my parents’ psyches – the characters responsible for the creation of my world.” To Taylor, dinosaurs represent anxiety, one that relates both to the uncertainty of the future and the brutality of the past, and Star Trek represents the magic of a future fantasy. By juxtaposing emotionally-charged fictional and factual and imagery, Taylor collapses time along psychic, genetic, and poetic lines. Kiyomi Quinn Taylor (born 1995, South Orange, New Jersey) received a BFA from New York University (2017) and an MFA from Columbia University (2020). She has presented work in group exhibitions since 2016. Dream Logic is her first solo exhibition at Steve Turner. Kiyomi Quinn Taylor creates works that combine drawing, painting and collage to form fantasy narratives which conflate family history with dinosaurs and Star Trek. She utilizes an archive of family photographs from the 1950s to 1970s which features African American relatives in New York, and Washington State and Japanese ones in Fukuoka, Japan. To Taylor, dinosaurs represent anxiety, one that relates both to the uncertainty of the future and the brutality of the past, and Star Trek represents the magic of a future fantasy. By juxtaposing emotionally-charged fictional and factual and imagery, Taylor collapses time along psychic, genetic, and poetic lines. 1995, South Orange, New Jersey Education 2017 Solo Exhibitions 2020 Group Exhibitions 2020 2019 2017 2016 Grants and Awards 2017 2016 Bibliography
Lives and works in New York
2020
MFA, Columbia University, New York
BFA, New York University, New York
2021
Steve Turner, Los Angeles (upcoming)
Dream Logic, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
2021
Columbia MFA Thesis Exhibition, Wallach Gallery/Lenfest Center for the Arts, New York (upcoming)
Say It Loud, Christie’s, New York
Alone Together, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
m.i.o.k. Leroy Neiman Gallery, New York
Whams of Summer, Ki Smith Gallery, New York
Aesthetically Functional Only, Edsel William/The Fireplace Project, New York
Columbia University MFA First-Year Exhibition, Wallach Art Gallery, New York
All Art +, Van der Plas Gallery, New York
Open Stacks: BFA Thesis Exhibition, NYU Commons Gallery
Systems Flow, 80 WSE Gallery, New York
Preservation and Parafiction, NYU Commons Gallery
Back Story, SMI Virginia S Block Gallery, Montclair, New Jersey
2019
Helen Frankenthaler Painting Award
Brevoort-Eickemeyer Fellowship
Andrew Fisher Fellowship
Art & Art Professions Department Award, NYU
NYU Curatorial Collaborative Senior Honors Exhibition
2020
Sheets, Hilarie M. “Newly Minted Artists, Facing a Precarious Future, Take Action,” The New York Times, May 19