A sweeping survey of thirty years of work by Los Angeles artist Henry Taylor — painter, sculptor, installation artist, and one of the most singular voices in contemporary American art. His portraits and allegorical tableaux are populated by friends, family, strangers, athletes, and entertainers, rendered in compositions that feel brash at first glance and linger long after. Taylor paints on cigarette packs, cereal boxes, and found supports, bringing his practice into the realm of everyday culture without ever losing its gravity.

His installations recode found materials — bleach bottles, push brooms — to play upon art historical tropes and modernism's fraught relationship with African and African American culture. Taken together, the work amounts to a deep, humane observation of Black life in America at the turn of the century, one that moves from the particular outward toward something universal. Published to accompany the major retrospective at MoCA Los Angeles.