Rashod Taylor: Little Black Boy | Arts + Literature Laboratory | Madison Contemporary Arts Center

Rashod Taylor: Little Black Boy

Arts + Literature Laboratory, PhotoMidwest, and FlakPhoto present Little Black Boy, a photography exhibition by Rashod Taylor, Tuesday, September 17 through Saturday, November 9, 2024.

Rashod Taylor’s photography addresses race, culture, family, and legacy themes. His large-scale black-and-white photographs are a kind of family album filled with friends, birthdays, vacations, and everyday life. At the same time, these images tell you more than his family story; they’re a window into the Black American experience. In Little Black Boy, Taylor uses photography to document his young son LJ's experience growing up in the American Midwest. By examining LJ's childhood and the world he inhabits, Taylor's images show the ups and downs of childhood while simultaneously hinting at his anxieties as a father raising a black child in America.

A reception for Little Black Boy and other PhotoMidwest Festival 2024 exhibits on display at Arts + Literature Laboratory will be held on Friday, September 27, 5:00-8:00pm.

Rashod Taylor

Rashod Taylor (b.1985) attended Murray State University and earned a bachelor’s degree in art specializing in Fine Art Photography in 2007. Taylor favors traditional and lost format photography practices, silver prints, and wet plate collodion processes among them.

Taylor’s work uses portraiture to address themes of family, race, culture, and legacy. The artist’s photographs are a window into the Black American experience. His photographs are part of the permanent collections of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture, The Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. The Museum of Fine Arts Houston and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

Taylor has taught numerous workshops at Anderson Ranch Art Center. He has been invited to present lectures at Stanford University, George Washington University, Savannah College of Art and Design, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Maine Media Workshop + College, Los... Read More

with additional funds from the Endres Manufacturing Company Foundation, the Evjue Foundation, Inc., charitable arm of The Capital Times, the W. Jerome Frautschi Foundation, and the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation.

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