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July Issue 2006
Artists' Guild of Spartanburg in Spartanburg, SC, Features Works by Jim Taylor
The
Spartanburg Artists' Guild Gallery exhibit of work by Jim Taylor
opens July 1 at the Spartanburg Arts Center, in Spartanburg, SC.
The exhibit will remain on view through July 30, 2006.
Taylor's most recent focus, which will be reflected in the pieces exhibited, has been his own backyard in the Hampton Heights Historic District in downtown Spartanburg. With the aid of a telescope, a two-megapixel digital camera and a computer, he has captured the wildlife around him and transposed those images into works of art. "The digital camera allows quick, clean and detailed photographs," Taylor said of the photos that he says he then "colored, cut, flipped, textured, muted, stretched, layered and then applied to another surface."
After years spent perfecting his drawing skills and winning awards with his interpretation of pointillism, "digi-scoping" has led Taylor into a whole different realm of art. When he discovered the telescope, he began to shoot digital photographs of flora and fauna in his own surroundings and incorporated these shots into his art work, first as background but then as works of art in and of themselves. The telescope allows him to continue to capture the detail he spent hours drawing with pen throughout his years working in pointillism. Taylor has photographed spiders no bigger than three-quarters of an inch as well as the reflections of butterflies in a puddle of water, and the birds in his backyard habitat have provided him with endless inspiration and material.
For further information check our SC Institutional Gallery listings, call the gallery at 864/583-2776 or at (www.sparklenet.com/artistsguild/index.htm).
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