Taylor Ashby Hawkins at No Place, Ohio (Gallery A) April 29 — June 10, 2023
here are some colors you could see a jar of spit and color pink a small bottle of vomit floor to ceiling shag powder sweetness nearby we sat and cried back bodies made wind Planned obsolescence of flowers of explosions frozen air the middle of a sentence, pink and tourmaline and canton rose incandescent blood shot eye spitting in the face of gravity saying it it all back you were ready to die I will miss you I love you I was laying on my back and your hand touched mine revealing what color we are on the inside rich biometric earthy radiant incandesced all the other colors are lies a purity that slept with fantasy that brown is the color of the sunset from below the earth from inside the dust that glow and emit a life and death that is blinding to fathom but drop things and walk away like a jar of bile in the toilet ultraviolet radiation or something elsebut why dont we tell truths with our bodies and our surfaces pollinating flowers with our tongues
— David Lindsay
Blush Roder Taylor Ashby Hawkins
No Place, Ohio (Gallery A) April 29 — June 10, 2023
Text: David Lindsay
Taylor Ashby Hawkins, (b. 1990, Louisville, Kentucky) lives and works in New York. Hawkins attended Columbus College of Art and Design for Painting, earned his BFA in 2012, Shortly after attended Columbia University in NewYork and received his MFA in 2017. Their work uses narrative representation to reveal traces of fantasy, subcultures, sci-fi,and the ability to envision hybrid identities. Through the use of fashion and choreographed poses these figures take on motifs of the digital world into a physical dialogue that can articulate a generations relationship to reality.