Taylor McLendonMixed media artist

Huntsville, Alabama

After
strength.

Selected work by
Taylor McLendon

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Two charcoal-dark hands cupped open, painted in loose black acrylic on a white ground.
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The artist
“I am interested in what happens after strength.”

Taylor McLendon is a mixed-media and installation artist exploring identity, memory and transformation from Studio 255 at Lowe Mill in Huntsville, Alabama.

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Painting · Mixed media · Public art

A framed, abstract painting of Napoleon on horseback rendered in layered gray, black, and red marks, with figures and battle imagery below.

The Return

Acrylic on Canvas

The Tin Man holding a glossy red heart to his chest on a yellow ground.

After the Armor

Acrylic on canvas

The Tin Man raising his axe behind his head against a golden-yellow ground.

The Burden of Being Built

Acrylic on canvas

The Tin Man on hands and knees on a road of gold against violet, gold tears falling from his eyes.

Built to Endure

Acrylic on canvas

The statue of Noccalula rendered in weathered bronze-green and copper leaf, head bowed, against near-black.

Not All Sacrifice Is Named

Acrylic, oil marker & copper foil on reclaimed canvas

An abstract field of gray-violet covered in cascading white loops and drips of poured paint.

Nothing Stays Contained

Acrylic on canvas

We talk about beginnings as if they are light things. Fresh starts. Clean slates. But the first step carries the weight of everything that might follow.

The Gravity of Beginning

Acrylic on canvas

Holding something together can take more out of us than anyone ever sees.

The Cost of Preservation

Acrylic on canvas

We remember the raised hand. The victory sign. The moment someone could finally say we made it. What gets harder to see is everything carried into that moment.

What It Took to Win

Acrylic on canvas

A hand making the victory sign, painted in loose charcoal blacks on white canvas.

Victory, With Weight

Acrylic on canvas

Victory at Door 22 by Taylor McLendon, a monumental black and white mural depicting a hand raised in a victory gesture on the exterior of historic Lowe Mill ARTS & Entertainment in Huntsville, Alabama.

Victory At Door 22

Acrylic on a three-story wall

A clenched fist on a gold ground, an anatomical heart in deep plum pressed beneath it.

What Remains After Holding

Acrylic on canvas

A large open hand reaching upward, fingers spread, in smoky blacks and grays.

Gravity Does Not Ask Permission

Acrylic on canvas

What They Took From Us by Taylor McLendon incorporates his original photograph of Appeal to the Great Spirit (1909), a bronze sculpture by Cyrus E. Dallin outside the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

What They Took From Us

Mixed Media

There is a difference between being looked at and being seen.

You Can Still See Me

Mixed Media

They could take land, silence voices, and try to rewrite history. They could never take everything.

What They Could Never Take From Us

Mixed Media

From the studio

Notes &
observations.

Something Worth Counting

I never imagined that something I created in my studio would one day become part of an elected official’s list of accomplishments. But there it was.

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