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Al Taylor
Pass the Peas and Can Studys
This publication focuses on two bodies of work by Al Taylor, Pass the Peas and Can Studys. Although distinctly
individual, both of these series examine Taylor’s ongoing explorations of the circle. Instigated by curiosity, the artist
studies the inside and outside of circular shapes and investigates their multi-dimensional possibilities. Taylor playfully
explores these permutations in his Pass the Peas series from 1991–92. In addition to completing an array of drawings,
he used tubular materials such as hula-hoops, garden hose, and plastic-coated cable to create three-dimensional spirals
and coils, interlocking loops, and dissected circles that were mounted on the wall, left freestanding, or hung by wires
from the ceiling to activate changing perspectives. The artist’s investigations into the infinite possibilities of a circle
were further pursued during 1993 in his Can Studys series, when he expanded his “research” by exploring the play of
light that would theoretically be reflected off of the exterior—or projected out of the interior of cylindrical forms.
This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition Al Taylor: Pass the Peas and Can Studys which took
place at David Zwirner, New York, from 7 September to 27 October 2012.
Al Taylor was born in Springfield, Missouri, in 1948, and studied at the Kansas City Art Institute. He moved to New York
in 1970, where he would continue to live and work until his death in 1999. His work is found in a number of prominent
public collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. A retrospective of the artist’s prints opened at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich,
in September 2010, and travelled to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, in spring 2011.
Al Taylor
Pass the Peas and Can Studys
Text by Klaus Kertess
Book design by Yolanda Cuomo Studio, New York City
144 pages
9 × 11.4 in. / 23 × 29 cm
90 images
Four-color process
Hardcover
€ 38.00 / £ 32.00 / US$ 45.00
ISBN 978-3-86930-715-2
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