Reality is taken apart and then reconstructed rather than merely mimetic.

In Taylors new works, meaning is derived from the sum of the different materials and mediums that come together to form the image. Collectively, the works in Future Promise comprise a love letter to the resilience of a neighborhood and a community, translated through Taylors empathetic and incisive eye. Statuary Inc., allows us to peer into the warehouse of a wholesaler of statuettes used in pursuit of spiritual practices, a glimpse of the continuing commerce of an essential industry observed while the city was at a standstill. In this work, Taylor conveys a moment in which the interior landscape becomes the only world that exists. Other paintings show more intimate moments, such as On Thinking Thoughts are Feelings, in which a pregnant woman and her partner lounge in bed. In Anthony Cuts Under the Wburg Bridge, Sunset, Taylor depicts a stylist who, unable to work in his shuttered salon, found a way to practice his profession during the shutdown by offering haircuts en plein air under a bridge in Brooklyn. In Future Promise, Taylor departs from the familiar scenes of her native Southwest to reflect moments of day-to-day life around her home and studio in Brooklyn during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is Taylors sixth solo exhibition with James Cohan. James Cohan is presenting Future Promise, an exhibition of new work by Alison Elizabeth Taylor, on view at 48 Walker Street from September 10 through October 23, 2021.

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