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Tom Taylor-The Poet Spiel. a/k/a Thoss W. Taylor, a/k/a Spiel. American artist-writer. b. May 15, 1...
About the artist
Joined In 2013
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About the artist
Joined In 2013
(8 Followers)
Tom Taylor-The Poet Spiel. a/k/a Thoss W. Taylor, a/k/a Spiel.
American artist-writer. b. May 15, 1941 in Colorado.
Making art is the ongoing process of creating the batter for my daily bread. Some days, it is rich and buttery, some days sour vinegar and salt and many days it is a batter laced with shards of glass and steel. I take equally the challenge of deep topics in my work, such as mental illness, aging and sexual obsession, yet I do not fear the often disparaged challenge of perfecting the decorative arts. For seven decades, I have discovered and revealed my state of mind, my needs and my fulfillments, via ever-evolving methods of serving my art-de-jour.
I am largely self-taught as an artist; I began drawing animals and buildings when I was a child on a Colorado farm during the 1940s . Formal art education has played a minor role in my art career. The curiosity to explore ideas has been the major force in discovering how and what I choose to create. I am always willing to move on to new territory, new methods, new subjects of pursuit.
A major retrospective of my work may appear as if several artists had created it, though I sense a common thread throughout. Social commentary is of consistent concern, in both my ...
University of Colorado, Boulder Colorado. 1959-63
Famous Artists School, Westport Connecticut. 1956-57
Solo exhibitions listed by date: Tom Taylor a/k/a Thoss Taylor a/k/a The Poet Spiel. Museum, Gallery and Private Solo Exhibitions: 2017 Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, Pueblo CO. "New acquisitions. the circle images from 1982.
2016, Sangre de Cristo Arts Center and Buell Childrens Museum, Pueblo CO. "Lovestruck Doodles" summer 2016.
2016, Kadoya Gallery, "Drawing Conclusions" Kadoya Gallery, Pueblo CO. April 22 - July 15.. Solo exhibition with launch of new heavily illustrated whole career book, "A Lifetime Drawing Conclusions."
2015, The San Juan Gallery at PCC, Pueblo CO. ('Consider Your Confine" 100 pieces conceived in 1969-70 and since exhibited in 26 different art venues, coast to coast and including Nova Scotia. Old art still relevant today.
2012, Colorado State University – Pueblo, Pueblo, CO (seven decades retrospective)
2012, The Hagnaeur Gallery/ The BAC, Manitou Springs, CO
2012, West Hollywood City Hall, West Hollywood, CA
2011, San Juan Gallery at PCC, Pueblo, CO
2010, Gallery at The Loft, Pueblo, CO 1996, Royce Galleries Ltd., Denver, CO
1992, Royce Galleries Ltd., Denver, CO
1990, Edge Gallery, Denver, CO
1989, Edge Gallery, Denver, CO
1989, The Longmont Museum, Longmont, CO (a retrospec...