CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/11/2022

Alison Elizabeth Taylor, Naomi Fry and Lynne Tillman launch 'The Sum of It' at James Cohan

Tuesday, October 11 from 6:30–8:30 PM, James Cohan gallery presents the launch of Alison Elizabeth Taylor: The Sum of It—the first comprehensive monograph on the artist—published by DelMonico Books | D.A.P. and Addison Gallery on the occasion of her upcoming traveling mid-career survey. Essayists Naomi Fry and Lynne Tillman will read from the book, followed by a signing.

Featuring insightful essays by leading curators and writers, this fully illustrated publication traces the evolution of the artist’s work from early paintings that explore space, line, color and form within the limited palette afforded by the grains and tones of natural woods to vividly colored “hybrids” that layer marquetry, paint, and photographic imagery, to brand new and increasingly complex works inspired by the resilience of the artist’s urban neighborhood and community during the pandemic.

Taylor’s monograph is published on the occasion of Alison Elizabeth Taylor: The Sum of It, a major traveling survey exhibition at the Des Moines Art Center in Des Moines, IA, which will be up from October 15, 2022, through January 15, 2023. The show travels to the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA in February 2023.

ABOVE: Photo by Vincent Dilio

Raised in Las Vegas, Nevada, Alison Elizabeth Taylor (born 1972) received her MFA from the Graduate School of the Arts, Columbia University in 2005. Her work has been exhibited widely throughout the world. In 2009, she received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award and the Smithsonian's Artist Research Fellowship Program Award. Taylor lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

JAMES COHAN
'Alison Elizabeth Taylor: The Sum of It' book launch
Tuesday, October 11: 6:30 PM
48 Walker Street
New York, NY 10013
Tel: 212.714.9500
Email: info@jamescohan.com.