May 09, 2008 — June 14, 2008 76 Grand Street, New York Soft Serve features a new large portrait, four works on paper, and sculptural interventions by Taylor McKimens in a special exhibit in our storefront gallery. Taylor McKimens makes installation, sculpture, painting, and drawing all from a very elaborated world of his own creation: a world where the dark side of rural living inadvertently concocts elegant moments out of the repulsive and bizarre. This large portrait features a lip-bitingly awkward woman brandishing a recently caught fish, the slimy pink lure still protruding from its mouth and her, wearing nothing but a dirty white tee-shirt and broken glasses. The four works on paper are part of Taylor’s ongoing relationship with comics and illustration. Working out ideas and burning through a lot of imagery quickly, Taylor makes hand-painted comics and zines (this one for The Ganzfield) that are beautiful objects on their own. These are a continuation of Taylor’s ongoing series “The Drips”.