Craig Taylor
Craig Taylor earned his BFA from Maine College of Art and his MFA from Yale University. He has had solo shows at March Gallery and Sue Scott Gallery in New York, La Montagne in Boston, CB1 Gallery Los Angeles and Test: Showroom, Berlin. He has contributed work to numerous group exhibitions in such galleries as CTRL Gallery, Houston; 106 Greene, Brooklyn; the Massachusetts College of Art and Fred [London], Leipzig. His work has been covered in Art in America,the Huffington Post, Time Out New York and the Boston Globe. Before joining the faculty at RISD, Taylor taught at the Massachusetts College of Art, Pratt, Brandeis University and Yale University.
Taylor’s continued investigations into painting and drawing offer both the aesthetic experience arrived at through historical approaches to abstraction and the interplay of image associations. Subject matter appears, dissolves and reemerges into a broader meditation on the nature of abstraction and the painted object as emotive. Taylor displays an acute awareness of the conventions and limitations of both abstraction and representation, constructing his work on the continuum between the two experiences. While his work is freighted with a 20th-century American concern for the role and nature of abstract painting, it is simultaneously buoyed by a romantic touch rooted in 19th-century French tradition.
Courses
Fall 2023 Courses
PAINT 4514-01
PAINTING III
SECTION DESCRIPTION
The primary goal of this course will be to shift the responsibility of direction, problem-solving and problem- development from the Faculty Instructor to the student. But this will be accomplished with a great deal of faculty involvement and support. The class will begin with group assignments which will become increasingly independent. Group and individual critiques will continue as an integral part of the curriculum, with an emphasis on contemporary art and criticism.
Students are pre-registered for this course by the department; registration is not available in Workday. Enrollment is limited to Junior Painting Students.
Major Requirement | BFA Painting
PAINT 4520-01
PAINTERLY PRINTS
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This course offers a more painterly approach to the intaglio process. The students will produce applications of intaglio, such as collagraphs, large color monotypes and collage. Growth of imagery and technique will be encouraged through medium. A portfolio of prints will be produced.
Open to Junior Painting Students.
Major Requirement | BFA Painting
Spring 2024 Courses
PAINT 4502-04
PAINTING II
SECTION DESCRIPTION
The purpose of this course is to continue development based on Painting I. Individual expression will be encouraged through a series of larger works which require greater time and organizational skill. Experimentation in different painting media, including oil, acrylic, watercolor and mixed media will be encouraged. Group and individual critiques are required. Outside work will be assigned.
Enrollment is limited to Sophomore Painting Students.
Major Requirement | BFA Painting
PAINT 4520-01
PAINTERLY PRINTS
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This course offers a more painterly approach to the intaglio process. The students will produce applications of intaglio, such as collagraphs, large color monotypes and collage. Growth of imagery and technique will be encouraged through medium. A portfolio of prints will be produced.
Open to Junior Painting Students.
Major Requirement | BFA Painting
PAINT 4529-04
DRAWING II
SECTION DESCRIPTION
A continued examination and development of drawing skills. This course is coordinated with Painting II.
Open to Sophomore Painting Students.
Major Requirement | BFA Painting