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New Paintings and Drawings by Craig Taylor at Sue Scott Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Sue Scott Gallery presents Craig Taylor: Paintings and Drawings, a solo exhibition of new work opening June 30 and on view through August 5, 2011. Taylor’s continued investigations of painting and drawing offer both the aesthetic experience arrived at through historical approaches to abstraction and the interplay of image associations. Subject matter appears, dissolves, and reemerges into a broader meditation on the nature of abstraction and the painted object as emotive. Taylor displays an acute awareness of the conventions and limitations of both abstraction and representation, constructing his work on the continuum between the two experiences. He operates within the traditions of Post-War American abstraction, but not strictly within their formal languages: chunks of image float to the surface and create their own vernacular of signs and marks. A narrative unfolds through an understanding of h