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W James Taylor

About the Artist W James Taylor is a contemporary Fine Art chalk pastel painter. His core artistic exploration is based on Vicissitude an abstract geometrical triptych, expressing what he felt and experienced as a young man of the turbulent 1960's with the challenges of integration. He incorporates the stories his father, Eldred Libby Taylor, told him of his childhood in Georgia during the Jim Crow period and the Civil Rights struggle with powerful subliminal imagery. When he's not creating images for Vicissitude, he loves composing songs and playing them on his classical acoustic guitar. He plays for local and national senior living communities and other venues throughout the United States. As a professional drummer with different bands in the 60’s he opened for famous Motown Artist performing on the Chitlin Circuit like, Rufus Thomas and Mary Wells, later in the 70’s opening for acts like Parliament Funkadelic and Bill Withers, both at the civic coliseum in his hometown Knoxville,