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MAXWELL TAYLOR - A CUT ABOVE



With the NoA's founder "working" terribly hard at the Bahamas International Film Festival, the NoA was able to visit the National Gallery of the Bahamas in Nassau (where the festival's panel series was being held) and was privileged to discover the paper work of Maxwell Taylor.

With more than 150 works on display, Taylor's piercingly provocative woodcuts expose, with devastating directness, the cascading conditions of life of the artist's Bahamian and American subject cultures. Using seemingly simple but substantive lines in bold color and bolder blacks and whites, musicians, indigenous souls and soldiers are each depicted at times of celebration and physical and/or political chaos.

Dr. Erica James has curated an incredibly evocative show that makes full use of the gorgeous Villa Doyle in downtown Nassau. By adding to the traditionally hung pieces throughout the space with imposing large works of Taylor's stenciled directly onto the walls at points of entry to the gallery, James forces us to focus into the crests and troughs of Taylor's talents.




The National Art Gallery of the Bahamas
Villa Doyle, W. Hill St. in downtown Nassau
242/328-5800
www.nagb.org.bs