Blurring the boundaries between abstraction and figuration and painting and sculpture, Taylor Anton White is definitely one-to-watch. Relying on instinct and impulse, the Richmond, Virginia-based artist makes lively, three-dimensional mashups of materials, colors and forms. Whitehot Magazine: What role does play have in the making of your work? Taylor Anton White: I would say that it’s the most important thing. It has the most central part in it. Play is critical to my art-making. It’s one of the reasons why I decided not to move to New York to work. I live in Richmond, Virginia. I need to be good and bored, where I have to make art to entertain myself. Play is amplified by not being in an environment where there’s cool shit to go do. WM: Do you work from drawings or do you just start and keep adding until you stop? TAW: I generally don’t work from drawings or preparatory sketches and any kind of preconceived idea in my art. I’m actually interested in the work of the work, which is what really excites me. I usually start without any plan, although I often give myself some kind of restriction, like it’s Monday and I want to have a new painting by Friday. I don’t care what you have to do but there had better be one by Friday. It’s like being your own worst boss, which can loosen things up and create velocity. It forces you to stop overthinking things. I try to intuitively put things together and then delete things until it’s there. - Paul Laster, Giving Form to Fleeting Memories and Dormant Mania: An Interview with Taylor Anton White, Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, March 2020 Image: Taylor Anton White, Both of Them, Plus Red and Green, 2022. Acrylic, gouache, Flash, cardboard, canvas, cotton rags, Tyvek, sewing, metal snaps, and bolts, 34 x 28 in. On view in the exhibition "Seeing Red, Looking Blue, Feeling Green," curated by Paul Laster at Marquee Projects in Bellport, Long Island, NY, through Sept 18, 2022, Fri-Sun, 11am-5pm @marqueeprojects @taylor.a.white @whitehotmagazine #art #contemporaryart #abstractart #painting #assemblage #collage #taylorantonwhite #whitehotmagazine #marqueeprojects #bellport #longisland #ny