“In his inimitable cartoon style, Taylor McKimens expands still life into a glittery landfill of All-American trash”  -Roberta Smith, New York Times

Taylor William McKimens developed a distinctly American visual language from imagery he absorbed growing up in a tiny California desert town on the Mexican border, before he had access to fine art: cartoons, cereal boxes, comics, off-brand advertising, dollar bills, amateur painted signs, construction site messes, desert debris, fleshy cacti and the psychedelic visual culture of the American Southwest. Rather than shedding those early influences as he entered the art world, he honed and developed them as part of a generation of artists who came to define New York’s downtown art scene in the early 2000s. Over more than twenty years, that language has expanded from drawing into painting, sculpture and entire environments.