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Timothy Taylor is pleased to announce an exhibition of prismatic paintings by second-generation Abstract Expressionist painter Paul Jenkins (1923-2012) in New York. Organised in collaboration with the Paul and Suzanne Jenkins Foundation, this survey presentation will feature rare oil and enamel paintings from the 1950s and select watercolours and acrylics dating from 1960s through the 1990s, offering an extensive view of the painter's vital contributions to American abstraction. This marks Timothy Taylor's first presentation of Jenkins's work since announcing the gallery's relationship with the Foundation in late 2024.
In the early 1950s, following his studies at the Art Students League in New York under Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Jenkins settled in Paris, where he developed modes of painting that privilege chance processes. Allowing paint to pool, bleed, drip, and dribble on the canvas as he manipulated the surface, he created veils of colour that evoke changing light. Inspired by the…
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Timothy Taylor is pleased to announce an exhibition of prismatic paintings by second-generation Abstract Expressionist painter Paul Jenkins (1923-2012) in New York. Organised in collaboration with the Paul and Suzanne Jenkins Foundation, this survey presentation will feature rare oil and enamel paintings from the 1950s and select watercolours and acrylics dating from 1960s through the 1990s, offering an extensive view of the painter's vital contributions to American abstraction. This marks Timothy Taylor's first presentation of Jenkins's work since announcing the gallery's relationship with the Foundation in late 2024.
In the early 1950s, following his studies at the Art Students League in New York under Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Jenkins settled in Paris, where he developed modes of painting that privilege chance processes. Allowing paint to pool, bleed, drip, and dribble on the canvas as he manipulated the surface, he created veils of colour that evoke changing light. Inspired by the…
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