The Skateroom w/ Henry Taylor
one skateboard deck
7-ply Canadian Maplewood with screen-print
31 h. x 8 inches, each
mounting hardware included
edition of 100
certificate of authenticity signed by the artist
©Henry Taylor
Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth
object description
The 4th is released in a limited edition size of 100. Based on a 2012 13-feet tall piece composed of two stacked panels. As Tatiana Istomina describes the work, ‘The upper [panel] shows the monumental form of a black woman in a white T-shirt; she holds what looks like a potato chip in one manicured hand and a barbecue fork in the other… Like many of Taylor’s best paintings, the work transcends the particular circumstances of the depicted event, transforming it into a metaphorical statement of epic proportions… Although her appearance is firmly rooted in the everyday life of contemporary America, the scale, posture, and gravity of the figure connects her to timeless icons of fertility and power, from Paleolithic Venus figurines to traditional African sculpture and early Renaissance Madonnas.