W. James Taylor | Geneva Galleries

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W. James Taylor | Geneva Galleries
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Chalk Pastel Painter, Publisher & Musician

W James Taylor is a contemporary Fine Art chalk pastel painter. His core artistic exploration is based on Vicissitude an abstract geometrical triptych, expressing what he felt and experienced as a young man of the turbulent 1960’s with the challenges of integration. He incorporates the stories his father, Eldred Libby Taylor, told him of his childhood in Georgia during the Jim Crow period and the Civil Rights struggle with powerful subliminal imagery.

The idea for Vicissitude came to him over a six year period, with each panel representing a different time in the history of African Americans. His mission is to engage his audience in conversation about the enormous sacrifice his ancestors made, during the Civil Rights struggle for freedom and equality. When he’s not creating images for Vicissitude, he loves composing songs and playing them on his classical acoustic guitar. He plays for local and national senior living communities and other venues throughout the United States. As a professional drummer with different bands in the 60’s he opened for famous Motown Artist performing on the Chitlin Circuit like, Rufus Thomas and Mary Wells, later in the 70’s opening for acts like Parliament Funkadelic and Bill Withers, both at the civic coliseum in his hometown Knoxville, Tennessee. Art, music and his annual children’s art camp “MFAC” continues to be his passion.