DOONGALIK STUDIOS TO HOST MAX TAYLOR’S EXHIBITION ‘REMNANTS’ FOR THE SUMMER

Doongalik Studios Art Gallery, Village Road is honoured to host Max Taylor’s ‘REMNANTS’ Exhibition throughout the summer. The Exhibition comprises an amazing collection of woodcuts, prints, acrylic paintings on canvas and paper, as well as wood sculptures from 2001—2009. The Official Opening of the Exhibition is slated for Thursday, July 8 from 6-9 pm with an Artist’s Walk and Talk taking place at 7pm.



In addition to an appreciative adult audience the Gallery is looking forward to welcoming a continuous stream of summer school students armed with their sketch pads and pencils who will be encouraged to study and draw from this Bahamian master’s work. The Exhibition will be on display until September 24.

Gallery Owner Jackson Burnside, in this 2006 review of the artist, wrote:

As one of the first Bahamian Artists, Maxwell is perhaps our most advanced. He is a stubbornly individualist artist that has followed his own vision, disregarding the commercial aspects of art that could have made his life so comfortable. These are the words that the late Brent Malone, a close friend and fellow artist, used in introducing Max Taylor at the opening of a one-man exhibition at Brent’s Matinee Gallery, on the 12th December, 1978.

After a lifetime of constant search and struggle, Maxwell Taylor has established an international reputation of excellence, and has earned a celebrated place in a society that had no place for artists when he was born. Born in 1939 in Grant’s Town, New Providence, Bahamas, Max Taylor, along with Brent Malone and Kendall Hanna, was one of the first apprentices of the fabled Chelsea Pottery in Nassau. When the pottery closed in 1966, Max found his way to New York. This visit, which was to last approximately twenty years before he moved south to the Carolinas and traveled extensively in Europe observing the social, economic, and political dynamics of many cultures. This exposure opened doors to the unique and intensely sensitive perception of the world of Maxwell Taylor.

Solidly grounded in the consciousness of his Bahamian background, and steeped in the pain and pleasure of the outside world, Taylor works incessantly to record the celebration and the atrocities he sees. The work of Max Taylor is a highly personal and spiritual odyssey creating a time-less quality of the dignity and strength of suffering in the experience of mankind and nature.

Max Taylor is a versatile and accomplished technician and a master of a variety of media - painting, printmaking, ceramics and sculpture. In all of his works the search for meaning, the depth of thinking, and the joy of the graphics is evident. Taylor will tell you I love to draw. I am constantly drawing. I make hundreds of drawings.

For further information on this Exhibition please contact the Gallery at 363-1313 or doongalikart@batelnet.bs