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Chet Taylor

He/Him/His
Fine Art
2023 Summer
Graduation with Distinction
Specializing in I specialize in sculpture

Chet Taylor is a multimedia artist working primarily in sculptures and drawings that investigate aesthetics of modern infrastructure and systems of control.  He was born in Portland, Oregon in 1999 and spent many days of his youth playing in the woods near his childhood home.  He moved to California at the age of six and continued to spend time in the natural world.  During his two years at Santa Barbara City college he studied sculpture and practiced metal working and furniture building, as well as taking as many Art history classes as he could.  From a young age Taylor has been interested in ancient art and monuments from the deep past.  Through pursuing these studies in high school and community college Taylor grew interested in theories that question conventional timelines regarding the evolution of civilization and instead propose the idea that advanced civilizations are much older than previously thought.  

These ideas and mindsets of questioning and challenging institutional frameworks of humanities path inspires his artistic practice today.  The work conceptualizes archaeological items from an imagined future. By creating concrete sculptural objects, Taylor appropriates museological tactics of display to question notions of truth, significance, and importance tethered to the framing of historical narratives. Through the dissection of imagery found in internet-based media, Taylor removes information from its original role and recycles it until it is completely obscured and rendered useless. He is currently working in drawings on poured concrete forms that take the form of simulated archaeological artifacts that investigate modern value systems, industry, and our collective future.

Taylor currently resides in Los Angeles, California where he is pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts at ArtCenter College of Design and is expected to graduate in the summer of 2023.  Before attending ArtCenter Taylor took classes for two years at Santa Barbara City College where he focused on metal-working, sculpture, painting, and furniture.