Introduction
The Dab Art Co. is pleased to present Good Morning Dave, a solo exhibition of photographs by California based artist Curtis Taylor. An expansion of Taylor’s popular 3D work, Good Morning Dave moves beyond the physical limitations of his sculptural work and emphasizes the spatial dynamics of positive and negative imagery.
The serendipitous fruition of this exhibition is the contemporary art fallout of an experimental pinhole camera project, wooden monolith and calamitous road trip to the midwest during a year in pandemia. Good Morning Dave is a paradoxical, but perfectly timed execution of a project gone both wrong and right.
The title Good Morning Dave seemed fitting as the literal and allegorical parallels between Kubriks’ Space Odyssey 2001 and the unconventional creative journey Taylor embarked on in 2020 were realized. In 2001, HAL’s A.I. advanced until it circumvented it’s inventors. The unintentional evolution and final presentation of this exhibition proposed similar discord for Curtis Taylor as he considered the possibility that the art no longer belonged to the artist.
The final collection of prints presented for Good Morning Dave is a mesmerizing visual frontier of Taylor’s enigmatic perspective on spontaneity, adaptation and perseverance.
Yessica Torres
The serendipitous fruition of this exhibition is the contemporary art fallout of an experimental pinhole camera project, wooden monolith and calamitous road trip to the midwest during a year in pandemia. Good Morning Dave is a paradoxical, but perfectly timed execution of a project gone both wrong and right.
The title Good Morning Dave seemed fitting as the literal and allegorical parallels between Kubriks’ Space Odyssey 2001 and the unconventional creative journey Taylor embarked on in 2020 were realized. In 2001, HAL’s A.I. advanced until it circumvented it’s inventors. The unintentional evolution and final presentation of this exhibition proposed similar discord for Curtis Taylor as he considered the possibility that the art no longer belonged to the artist.
The final collection of prints presented for Good Morning Dave is a mesmerizing visual frontier of Taylor’s enigmatic perspective on spontaneity, adaptation and perseverance.
Yessica Torres
Dedication
Good Morning Dave part 1
Part 1
its calling
mashed potato
mountains
flash burn floaters
momentarily visible
waltzing in the aether
1 2 3
listening to voices
4 5 6
muscle memory
purpose unknown
the process of becoming
its calling
mashed potato
mountains
flash burn floaters
momentarily visible
waltzing in the aether
1 2 3
listening to voices
4 5 6
muscle memory
purpose unknown
the process of becoming
Good Morning Dave part 2
Part 2
stratum
a horizon contained
interpreted
bisected and reconnected
perfectly familiar
conspicuously out of place
alone
calling to nothing
in one to
three-point perspective
a tenuous balance
dubious locations
stratum
a horizon contained
interpreted
bisected and reconnected
perfectly familiar
conspicuously out of place
alone
calling to nothing
in one to
three-point perspective
a tenuous balance
dubious locations
Good Morning Dave part 3
part 3
blue danube
a gale-force trebuchet
a crescendo
of dissonant chords
beginning the process
disassembling the becoming
strangely
ambivalent rumination
conversations
oversaturated impressions
s-curve crushed blacks
serendipitously obfuscated
blue danube
a gale-force trebuchet
a crescendo
of dissonant chords
beginning the process
disassembling the becoming
strangely
ambivalent rumination
conversations
oversaturated impressions
s-curve crushed blacks
serendipitously obfuscated