Will Taylor
Visual Arts Faculty (2005)
Drawing

Will Taylor earned a B.F.A. from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and an M.F.A. from Pratt Institute. His drawings and films are included in the Drawing Center’s Viewing Program (New York City), Artists Space’s digital slide registry (NYC), and Pierogi 2000’s Video File (Brooklyn, N.Y.). His collaborative works with Brooklyn artists Jack Warren and Caleb Scott have been included in a variety of exhibitions including the Trisha Brown Dance Company Benefit at Pace Wildenstein (NYC). With the support of the Combustive Motor Corporation (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Mr. Taylor founded the “charred and lacquered” film series in 2001. The “charred and lacquered revival” continues as a multidisciplinary art collective interested in promoting innovative and challenging works of art through the adaptive reuse of alternative spaces. Mr. Taylor’s work has been presented as the subject of public symposia for such critics and curators as Donald Kuspit, Dan Cameron (New Museum of Contemporary Art), Laura Hoptman (Museum of Modern Art), and Eugenie Tsai (Whitney Museum of American Art). He has paneled discussions for the Fourth Annual Cultural Studies Conference and the American Society of Media Photographers. Other recent projects include "deconcealed" (a collaborative art installation in an abandoned textile mill in Mebane, N.C.) and "Elysiana" (a collaborative film created in part for the nationally known 48-Hour Film Project).