G Gallery is pleased to present House Mind, a solo exhibition by Taylor White, from 29 March to 29 April 2023. This is the artist's second solo exhibition in Korea since 2019. While White is known for his distinctive and intense aesthetic that refuses to be bound to a specific subject or medium, the works presented in this exhibition are centered on the theme of home.
Since 2022, White has been focusing on conceptual drawings, breaking away from his previous experimental style of work, and has been revisiting subjects such as houses and cars that he frequently drew in his childhood. House Mind explores the theme of houses. The houses that are often seen in children's drawings, especially children from North America, have remained similar for so long that they could be considered stereotypes. We are all too familiar with the single-family home with a grassy front yard, the sun taking up one corner of the page, the occasional leafy tree, two windows, one door, and a chimney. Born and raised in the United States, the houses that Taylor White depicts are similar, but there is no such innocence in the work of an artist who has come of age over the years. The oil pastel strokes are rough, chaotic, and even a little dark.
Societally, a house has many meanings. It can be a shelter to return to at the end of the day, a vehicle for nostalgia, a transformation of natural materials into something not quite natural, or an expression of ideology, as seen in phrases like 'In this house, we believe in'. In each of his works, White places these houses on a stand-alone basis. Through the composition, which fills the entire canvas, the viewer comes face-to-face with a house that may be someone's sanctuary, their mental world. The houses vary in form. They are basically single-family homes, but each one is in distress: leaning precariously to one side or the other or engulfed in flames. Despite their seemingly predestined destruction, the artist says they are defiant. 'Many of these paintings depict houses fighting to remain upright, intact, and true against external forces, shearing winds, fire, and to remain illuminated in darkness.'
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