Austyn Taylor / Fine Art / Sculpture / Ethel

"Hands down the lesson for me, as an artist, has been faith in absurdity. Everything with a grain of salt, everything with friendly spirit, strengthening one's humor has never been more critical for survival! Bigger, simpler, happier! My focus on this series has been unconditional love, optimism and faith in humanity to self-educate and do the right thing. 

I would use ‘totems’ or ‘haniwa’ figures–I don't want to sound ‘fruity/witchy’ but would like to communicate that the sculptures I make do function to carry spiritual weight when you live with them, and they act to channel psycho-spiritual energies. 

The point of me making them is that they act as conduits for unresolved existential human/animal drama." ~ Austyn Taylor

 

• Dimensions – 40H x 14D x 24W in
• Materials – Painted stoneware ceramic

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Albion, CA

Austyn Taylor's art practice is at it’s core a reaction to the deconstructed heaps of culture left by post modernism and a search for value and virtue. Her aim as an artist is to create works which circle around sacred values such as unconditional love, authenticity, imagination and human dignity. For 20 years her work has utilized figurative characters evolved from the closest thing to authentically sacred symbols from her culture – the graphic hand drawn aesthetics found in American animation. 

Learn more about Austyn Taylor in our Conversations with an Artist series.