Artwork - James Taylor

James Taylor

W James Taylor is a Contemporary Fine Art Chalk Pastel Painter.  His core artistic exploration is based on an abstract geometrical triptych, expressing what he felt and experienced as a young man of the turbulent 1960's, with the challenges of integration. 

He incorporates the stories his father, Eldred Libby Taylor, told him of his childhood in Georgia during the Jim Crow period with powerful subliminal imagery.

The idea for Vicissitude came to him over a six year period, with each panel representing a different time in the history of African Americans.  His Mission is to engage his audience in conversation about the enormous sacrifice his ancestors made during the struggle for freedom and equality.  When he's not creating images for Vicissitude, he loves composing songs and playing them on his acoustic guitar.  He plays for local and national senior living communities and other venues throughout the United States.  As a professional drummer with different bands he opened for famous acts on the Chitlin Circuit in the 1960's for performers like Rufus Thomas and Mary Wells, later in the 1970's opening for Parliament Funkadelic and Bill Withers at the Civic Coliseum in his hometown Knoxville, Tennessee.  Art, music and the opening of his gallery in his mothers name " Geneva "  has always been his passion.

https://www.genevagalleries.com/