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Jack G. Taylor (b. 1996, Seattle, WA) is a painter, illustrator, and printmaker currently based in Iowa City, Iowa. Taylor’s work employs cartooning language and pop imagery in order to critique, satirize, and skewer American culture (“Too Late” Stage Capitalism). His work often draws from classic mid century animation, underground and mainstream comics, as well as film, music, and other pop ephemera in order to depict the mania and malaise associated with modern life. All of these elements come together in bright, colorful compositions that feature distorted characters caught in frenetic compositions.
Taylor earned a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2018, and is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Iowa. His work has been exhibited at venues including Future Tenant, Pittsburgh; Zynka Gallery, Pittsburgh; The Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh; Smoke the Moon, Santa Fe; Mount Analogue, Seattle; Project Project, Omaha; the Ana Mendieta Gallery, Iowa City; and The Stanley Museum of Art, Iowa City, among others.
Taylor has earned various honors including the Anne Ophelia Dowden award, and the Mildred Pelzer fellowship.