newyorker:No one but Henry Taylor could have painted “See Alice jump” (2011) or “The Long Jump by Ca
newyorker:No one but Henry Taylor could have painted “See Alice jump” (2011) or “The Long Jump by Carl Lewis” (2010), in which African-American sports stars leap through the artist’s beloved horizontal, and thus through time, through neighborhoods, through black history itself, offering a vision of the heroic that lives alongside the prisons and the projects, and that exists despite those things, yet does not, could not, erase or justify them. Taylor sees in the round. And he sees most acutely the things from which we may wish to turn. Things like Philando Castile bleeding out in the driver’s seat of a car (“the times thay aint a changing, fast enough!”). Read Zadie Smith on the artist Henry Taylor’s work. -- source link