pinkghost blog: Taylor Meers - Bad Habits FEATURED artist

Taylor Meers Jacobs was born in 1981 in Dallas, Texas. With pencil in hand and an ever-growing library of engorged sketchbooks, he dreamed of applying his creativity to different mediums and unveiling his work to the world. A true cultural arts enthusiast, he sought work as a freelance illustrator in Miami, Florida, designing posters and flyers for local musicians and doing graphic design jobs at a community performing arts theatre. After serving as Art Director, Layout Editor, and in-house Illustrator for Palm Beach Community College’s Beachcomber magazine, he decided to relocate to San Francisco’s Bay area where he will accept a scholarship offer to California College of the Arts. He is currently undergoing studies and expects to dabble in everything from children’s book illustration, animation, to sculpture and toy design. The future is bright for this young, imaginative illustrator.

Visit Taylor on Myspace at www.myspace.com/thenobleman

Check out his latest collection of guilty pleasures at pinkghost this December 13, 2008 during the group show Bad Habits & Guilty Pleasures. The show will run through January 17, 2009.

About his work for Bad Habits & Guilty Pleasures:
Taylor Meers' pieces create an atmosphere whereby audiences' pop sensibilities are turned inside out, a surreal landscape populated by aesthetics and whimsy. The paintings are the confluence where artist's vision meets the audience's gaze. They dwell in the inter-zone, straddling symbolism and dining on Tuesdays with a halo on top. This nimbi juxtaposition of illustrated narratives gives the subjects an elevated plain of existence within a seized moment in time and implies an unforeseen fate left to be determined by the viewer's imagination.