Inner City

The dream of Modernist architecture dies. In the bloody half-light of the morning we awaken to the post-modern reality of fences which do not keep us safe, homes that do not nurture us. The helicopters of paranoia circle above.

These are Dee Taylor's Imaginative themes. Like Tate Modern's recent turbine hall exhibition "TH.2058" by French artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Taylor's paintings draw on the literature and films of futuristic dystopias, but brings the vision closer to our present time. As the social and architectural infrastructure crumbles, the technology of domination, surveillance and control increases exponentially. This is the great irony of progress depicted in large, powerful canvases that initially dominate the viewer in a way that parallels the imagined tyrannies of the near future.

Please click on the picture for a detailed view to appreciate the remarkable colouring and techniques used in this piece.