Nine colours of typography over a gold leaf background — You Be Andy Warhol I'll Be Jean-Michel Basquiat is an invitation, a role assignment and an art history lesson compressed...
Nine colours of typography over a gold leaf background — You Be Andy Warhol I'll Be Jean-Michel Basquiat is an invitation, a role assignment and an art history lesson compressed into a single title. The reference is layered: Warhol and Basquiat collaborated, but their collaboration was unequal and complicated, and Taylor's title addresses that directly by asking someone to choose which position to take.
The gold leaf background gives this piece a physical warmth and luminosity that gold ink can't match — the leaf sitting on the surface with a depth and reflectivity that shifts with the angle of light in the room. Nine separate colour layers of typography applied over that ground. Benjamin Thomas Taylor's most commercially ambitious piece at Print Club London is also among his most conceptually specific: a question about influence, collaboration and who gets to be which artist. Exclusively available at Print Club London. £795.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Benjamin Thomas Taylor
Benjamin Thomas Taylor is a British Pop Art-influenced painter and printmaker based in London. Raised in Snowdonia, he studied painting at the University of Brighton. His work — bold, joyful and studded with art historical references — has been collected internationally since 2015. Commercial commissions include album artwork for Paolo Nutini’s number one Caustic Love, as well as projects for Nike, Rough Trade Records and Robbie Williams.