Henry Taylor is a Los Angeles based artist best known for his acrylic paintings, mixed media sculptures, and installations. When Taylor arrived at Paulson Fontaine Press in 2024, he experimented with soapground, spitbite, softground, and drypoint. Ultimately, it was the immediacy of the positive mark provided by sugarlift that Taylor ran with. Over the course of the next week, he created a self-portrait, revisited a painting of his late mother and his daughter, and started a piece based on a photo he had taken years ago of a group of men on the streets of downtown L.A. In the print titled History is Everywhere, Taylor pays tribute to Huey P. Newton and the city of Oakland where he took his first printmaking class at Laney college in the late 70’s.
