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Biography
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About Sam Taylor-Wood From Artnet
http://www.artnet.com/artist/16443/sam-taylor-wood.html
"Sam Taylor-Wood graduated from Goldsmiths College in 1990. Her work
in photography and film is distinguished by an ironic and subversive
use of these media, which centre on the creation of enigmatic
situations replete with a latent but explosive energy; situations that
could go any way and in which any number of things could happen."
"She has recently completed a series of photographs titled ?Crying
Men?, 2002-2004. The series consists of photographs, in colour and
black and white of male, film actors crying. The images are
multi-layered, and provocative. The viewer is presented with seemingly
private, intimate moments of sorrowful emotion. However, with the
knowledge that they are actors it is left unconfirmed whether what the
viewer is experiencing is an insight into their souls or the beautiful
execution and capture of another acting role."
"Taylor-Wood's film ?David?, 2004 allows us to witness David Beckham,
the England football Captain, asleep. It provides the viewer with an
intimate, serene vision of an otherwise heavily exposed celebrity. The
work was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery and is in their
permanent collection."
"In films like ?Ascension?, 2003, and photographs such as ?Wrecked?,
1996 and the ?Soliloquy? series (1998-2000), Taylor-Wood explores the
boundaries between the sacred and the profane, fusing religious
imagery informed by Renaissance and Baroque painting with the secular,
urban and contemporary landscape that she inhabits."
"Her works compulsively examine and dissect the contemporary psyche
and the place of the individual within the social group. Films like
?Strings?, 2004 and her photographic series ?Self Portrait Suspended?,
2004, display the vulnerability and fragility of the human body and
self."
"Since her first solo exhibition at White Cube in 1995, Taylor-Wood
has had numerous solo shows including Fundacio La Caixa, Barcelona;
Kunsthalle, Zurich; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC; Fondazione Prada,
Milan; Matthew Marks Gallery, New York; Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo;
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and the Museum of Contemporary Art,
Montreal."
"In 1997 she received the Illy Café Prize for Most Promising Young
Artist at the Venice Biennale and was nominated for the Turner Prize.
In 2002 she was the youngest artist to have a solo show at the Hayward
Gallery, London. She is currently preparing for shows of her new work
at Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (September 18th - 30th October);
White Cube, London (28th October - 4th December) and the Russian State
Museum, St. Petersburg (24th November - 15 January 2005)."
See her list of Exhibitions.....
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Read "Sam Taylor-Wood: The artist works upstairs from the Pet Shop
Boys, but her head is full of Johnny Cash. So the Doctor has to find
her some 'happy' music," by Peter Paphides. The Observer. February 22,
2004
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/recorddoctor/story/0,11109,1150743,00.html
"Minimal? The word doesn't quite do justice to Sam Taylor-Wood's work
space - a huge white room that takes up the entire fourth floor of an
anonymous east London building. Attached by a chain to the ceiling, a
Sixties bubble-chair hangs in mid-air, while across the other side of
the room, two Technics decks sit atop a storage unit containing CDs
and vinyl. A couple of floors down, Taylor-Wood's pals the Pet Shop
Boys tinker away in their studio. Last year, they persuaded her to
sing on a version of Donna Summer's 'Love To Love You'. For the
36-year old renaissance woman of the British art scene, the chance to
morph into a disco diva was irresistible."
read further...
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"Sam Taylor-Wood, Born 1967, London, England, Lives and works in London."
http://www.cmoa.org/international/html/art/taylor-wood.htm
See photo and read about the artist.
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More about the artist:
Read "The crying game." The Guardian. October 29, 2004.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1338750,00.html
"Her detractors say that cosying up to celebrities matters more to Sam
Taylor-Wood than her art. Not true, she says - she's always been an
outsider. She talks to Emma Brockes about fame, cancer, and what her
film of a tapdancing bloke with a bird on his head is all about."
read further...
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See "Self Portrait in a Single Breasted Suit with Hare, 2001."
http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/exhibitionInfo/exhibition/16161
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Read "Actors turn on the tears for artist Sam Taylor-Wood," by
Charlotte Higgins. The Guardian. October 28, 2004.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1337506,00.html
"Poor old Jude Law. Despite his stellar acting career, he has had a
tough time of it recently, what with his highly publicised divorce
from Sadie Frost. Perhaps that's why he has slunk into a corner,
tucked his knees up to his chin, and is sobbing his lovely eyes out,
that eloquent vein on his forehead a-throb with the pain."
"Or perhaps not. The image is actually one of a series of 16
photographs made by artist Sam Taylor-Wood of male actors, including
Benicio Del Toro, Ben Stiller and Michael Gambon, crying like babies."
Read further...
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An older article about the artist:
Read "Sam Taylor-Wood," by Daniel Birnbaum. ArtForum, Nov, 1996
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_n3_v35/ai_18963446
"Whereas a number of the contemporary artists forsaking canvas for
celluloid have produced rather traditional films, Sam Taylor-Wood
merges cinematic sensibility and technique with the particularities of
photography and videomaking to create an oddball art-film hybrid."
read further...
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Interview:
Read "AN INTERVIEW WITH SAM TAYLOR-WOOD," by Andrew Suggs. Volume 9, Fantastic.
http://hcs.harvard.edu/~hpj/stwinterview.htm
"Harvard Photography Journal: What motivates your decision to use either
film or photography when you start a project?
Sam Taylor-Wood: When I have an idea it presents itself as one or either; it?s
never "this could be a film or should it be a photograph?" When I have
the idea, it?s either a photograph or it?s film, and it?s dictated by
the idea almost instantaneously."
Read entire interview...
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Artwork/Reviews
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About her Soliloquy series:
http://www.albrightknox.org/acquisitions/acq_2000/TWood.html
http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/past_exhibitions/moving_pictures/highlights_9a.html
Soliloquy and others:
http://csw.art.pl/new/2000/samtaylor_e.html
http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/1998/newphoto14/sam_taylor_wood.html
Read "Sam Taylor-Wood - White Cube, London, " by Jonathan Jones.
Guardian Unlimited. Novemeber 2004.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/reviews/story/0,11712,1340667,00.html
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"Sam Taylor-Wood: "Passion."
http://www.artcritical.com/moylan/CMTaylorWood.htm
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Read "Sam Taylor-Wood - The British artist's collection of photographs
'Crying Men' captures male actors bawling their eyes out," by Julianne
Shepherd.
http://www.venuszine.com/stories/arts_featured_artist/1078
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Review of the film, Ascension:
http://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/news/sculpture/05taylorwood.html
"Tap-dancing combines grace and agility with the conspicuous
expenditure of effort and an incessant, percussive reminder of our
habitual abrasion with the material world. Its playfulness with
gravity, the insane excess of its attempts at lift-off, coupled with
the constant necessity of its hammering return to earth, make it an
ideal focus for Sam Taylor-Wood?s film Ascension. This brief but
perfectly paced meditation on the relations of body and spirit is
characteristically wry in its witty literal-mindedness, but also
magically uplifting in its celebrating of ascension, not as a unique
event but as an inflection of common human experience. The rhythm of
the film makes it a flicker-book version of a medieval tableau, with
the spirit rising vertically, like sculpted ectoplasm, above the
horizontal immobility of the body of the deceased....."
read further..
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See "Pietŕ 2001, A Little Death 2002." Courtesy Jay Jopling.
http://www.mechelen.be/contour/UK/stw.htm
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See "The Body in Question." John Haber in New York City
http://www.haberarts.com/chelfa02.htm
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Books by Sam Taylor-Wood
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See Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/external-search/104-8434737-0033513?tag=artistsportraiat&keyword=Sam%20Taylor-Wood&mode=books
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Films
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"SAM TAYLOR-WOOD." United Kingdom/2004/Betacam/colour/26 min/english
http://www.artfifa.com/en/par-titre/view-505.html
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umiat
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