Blush Roder
Taylor Ashby Hawkins
Gallery A
4.29 — 6.10
here are some colors you could see
a jar of spit and color
pink
a small bottle of vomit
floor to ceiling shag
powder sweetness
nearby we sat and cried
back bodies made wind
Planned obsolescence of flowers
of explosions
frozen air
the middle of a sentence,
pink and tourmaline and canton rose
incandescent blood shot eye
spitting in the face of gravity
saying it it all back
you were ready to die
I will miss you
I love you
I was laying on my back and your hand touched mine
revealing what color we are on the inside
rich biometric earthy radiant incandesced
all the other colors are lies
a purity that slept with fantasy
that brown is the color of the sunset from below the earth
from inside the dust
that glow and emit a life and death that is blinding to fathom
but drop things
and walk away
like a jar of bile
in the toilet
ultraviolet radiation
or something elsebut why dont we tell truths with our bodies and our surfaces
pollinating flowers with our tongues
-David Lindsay
Taylor Ashby Hawkins, (b. 1990, Louisville, Kentucky) lives and works in New York. Hawkins attended Columbus College of Art and Design for Painting, earned his BFA in 2012, Shortly after attended Columbia University in NewYork and received his MFA in 2017. Their work uses narrative representation to reveal traces of fantasy, subcultures, sci-fi,and the ability to envision hybrid identities. Through the use of fashion and choreographed poses these figures take on motifs of the digital world into a physical dialogue that can articulate a generations relationship to reality.