CHRISTOPHER HANLON
Mar 17 - Apr 9, 2010

THE TIGHTROPE WALKER
Jul 10 - Aug 27, 2010
Bernard Buffet, Jean Dubuffet, Hans Hartung, Georges Jouve, Serge Mouille, Charlotte Perriand, Jean Prouvé, Germaine Richier, Pierre Soulages

IN DREAMS
Sep 8 - Oct 2, 2010
Timothy Taylor Gallery is delighted to present In Dreams, a group exhibition featuring works on paper by artists including Armen Eloyan, Volker Hueller, Norbert Schwontkowski, Kiki Smith and Rose Wylie.
 
From idiosyncratic figurative narratives to more fragmented and abstracted compositions, the works in this exhibition are linked by their maker’s desire to construct hermetic alternative worlds. In ways similar to the logic experienced when dreaming, these artist’s drawn fictions give rise to impossible or incongruous episodes that nevertheless appear convincing when considered within their given context. The lone figures that occupy several of the compositions featured in this exhibition bear testimony to a solipsist tendency in many studio practices. Here a total emersion in medium and process leaves only enough room for a projected equivalent of the maker.

MICHAEL PATTERSON-CARVER
Sep 8 - Oct 2, 2010
Timothy Taylor Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of drawings by American artist Michael Patterson-Carver. This will be his first solo show in London and continues the gallery’s Viewing Room programme.
 
Born in 1958, Patterson-Carver's life and career have been shaped by his exposure as a young child to the US civil rights movement. His art and life are now inseparable. The artist’s drawings are a refreshingly frank look at the political realm, and many are allegories of well-known conspiracy theories.
 
Patterson-Carver's work expresses - both through its mode of address and what it reveals - an essential challenge to the dominant culture. It embodies the very notion of the power of the individual's conscience and witness-bearing, and the continuing belief in art as a means of effecting change.

JESSICA JACKSON HUTCHINS
Oct 13 - Nov 6, 2010
Timothy Taylor is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition in London by the Portland based American artist Jessica Jackson Hutchins.
 
Hutchins’ mixed media sculptures, prints and works on paper explore themes pertaining to motherhood, domesticity, and the precariousness of human relationships.
 
Using papier-mache, furniture, old clothing, and glazed ceramics, Hutchins builds up lumpen organic masses that recall recumbent figures. Her sculptures are almost always anthropomorphic - cups and vases come to signify hands and larger pairs of conjoined handmade vessels stand for embracing human figures.

RYAN MCLAUGHLIN
Oct 13 - Nov 6, 2010
Timothy Taylor Gallery is delighted to present a solo exhibition by Berlin-based American artist Ryan McLaughlin.
In recent years Ryan McLaughlin's paintings have taken their inspiration from a range of sources including historical and imagined sports heroes of the American baseball leagues, modern medicine, and amateur botany.
Characterised by fixed rules, codes, and subsequently a lack of ambiguity, these areas of interest and their accoutrements are completely at odds with the nebulous nature of painting practice. McLaughlin's compositions inhabit and acknowledge this zone of difference - between logic or rational systems and the absurdities of image making - and celebrate the irony of affirmation.