INDIGO ARTISTS

TAYLOR MOTT

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ARTIST'S STATEMENT

Taylor Mott was born in Brigham Utah in 1962. He grew up there and in Northwestern Montana on large working cattle ranches that were owned and operated by his parents. Mott’s mother, Diane, is an accomplished painter and printmaker and he is also descended from two noted New Mexico painters of the WPA era: Kay Mott on his father’s side, and Hal West on his mother’s. Given that creative background, Mott’s interest in art was encouraged from an early age. He attended art school first in Kansas City and later in California where he earned a BFA at the San Francisco Art Institute. Since then he has lived and worked in Montana and New Mexico.

Mott is an accomplished metal fabricator and carpenter, a designer and maker of fine-art furniture, a painter and a sculptor. Yet regardless of the variety of his abilities and accomplishments, to pin him down with any one definition is to misunderstand that his real art is the sum of all these diverse parts. It is a unique confluence of utilitarian craft, traditional aesthetics and the modern conceptual idiom. Mott himself feels most comfortable with Claude Levy-Strauss’s term “bricoleur”: a collector of cultural artifacts who "interrogates all the heterogeneous objects of his treasury" in his creative process.

EDUCATION
1981-83 Attended Kansas City Art Institute, Major in Painting
1982 Studied art independently in Europe
1987 San Francisco Art Institute, BFA Sculpture 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2007 "Western Convergence", Paris Gibson Square Art Museum, Great Falls, MT
2003-07 Represented By Shidoni Art Gallery, Tesuque, NM
2003-06 Represented by Clay and Fiber, Taos, NM
2003 Two Person Show at Toucan Gallery, Billings, MT
1998-2004 Contributed to Annual Art Auction, Yellowstone Art Museum
1987 Two Person Show, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute

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