Taylor Winn

American b. 1988
Born and raised in Austin TX
Lives and works in Austin TX

Color relationships, layering processes, and the use of immiscible materials define my art. My approach to painting originated in childhood with a beloved pre-school and home art activity involving the mixing of wildly varying household cooking ingredients and continued with an art-inspired education throughout grade school and college. Thus, my natural inclination is to experiment with materials and, in recent years, to find new and unique ways of coercing paint infused with metallics into visually captivating versions of natural environments.

My current series of paintings, The Melts, presents bodies of water, the sky, and the earth in graphic yet painterly abstractions of waves breaking on the ocean, sun and moonlight on the water, sun-streaked skies, mountain snows, cracking ice, fire, and flowing lava. The water-themed paintings, infused with gold, silver, copper and bronze metallics, engage viewers to experience the glint of sunrise, sunset, and moonlight reflections of color and light on moving water - rolling tides, breaking surf, rippling lake waters, whitewater rapids, waterfalls, and the open sea.

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2011 BA Studio Art
University of Texas at Austin

SOLO AND TWO OR THREE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2017 Taylor Winn
Abstract x Nature
Lady Bird Johnson Nat'l Wildflower Center, Austin TX

2017 Taylor Winn & Dony Wynn
Metallic + Rust
Davis Gallery, Austin TX

2016 Miguel Lee-Leon, Chuck Gumpert, Taylor Winn
Contemporary Abstraction
Brian Marki Fine Art
Palm Springs CA

2013 Taylor Winn
The XL Paintings
Bass Concert Hall, Austin TX

2011 Taylor Winn
Large Works 2005 - 2011
FAB Gallery, Austin TX

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 Bee Cave Arts Foundation
The Hive Gallery, Bee Cave TX

2017 Radiant
Davis Gallery, Austin TX

2017 Celebrate Texas Art
Assistance League of Houston, Houston TX
Juror Dean Sobel, Director
Clyfford Still Museum, Denver CO

2014 Texas Artists Exhibition
Beeville Art Museum
Beeville, TX

2014 The Hunting Art Prize Finalists Exhibition Gala
Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, TX

2013 The BigAss Canvas Show
Silicon Labs Gallery, Austin TX

2012 5 x 7 Annual Juried Exhibition
Contemporary Austin Jones Center, Austin...