C. Michael Taylor
January and February
Featuring one of Barcelona's own on our changing art wall. Michael's artist reception is Monday, February 4th from 5 to 7pm.
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C. Michael Taylor was born in Columbus, Ohio with a love of all art forms. He spent his childhood copying caricatures from a book left to him by his father while always looking for something new in art.
Michael graduated from Columbus College of Art and Design with a degree in illustration. He has received awards from the Society of Illustrators and has met many of his idols including Mark English, Brad Holland, and Jack Unruh. After a brief stint living in San Francisco, Michael returned to Columbus and briefly taught at CCAD. He has had many successful shows both here at Barcelona and other galleries in the area.
Michael is inspired by many art forms including modern and illustrations, however his largest influence comes from Bauhaus artists, specifically Klee and Kandinsky. With the goal of creating something original, Michael has used realistic and decorative elements as abstraction, brought abstract elements forward while pushing more realistic elements back, even combining them in playful ways.
This show exhibits layers of primitivism, constructivism, abstract expressionism, geometric abstraction, pop art, impressionism, and post impressionism all with modern sensibility.
Oh, Michael just might be your server tonight, let him know what you think!
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Jesse Elliott Binder
November and December
Featuring one of Columbus' own on our changing art wall. Jesse's reception is Monday, November 19th from 5 to 7pm!
Jesse Elliott Binder
Born and raised in Columbus Ohio, Jesse Elliott Binder found his love for art at an early age. Taking a liking for cartoon and comic book illustration he started to mimic some of his favorite artists with tracing and replication. Shifting away from comic books he started to develop his own style and techniques and brought it to the streets of Columbus doing street art and graffiti. The late 80s and early 90s were a blur of skateboarding, punk rock, and his first exposure into the abstract world of fine art. Having attended Fort Hayes high school and fine arts vocational program, he started his journey into the world of creating his own masterpieces on canvas and selling privately while still in high school. Fast forward 25 years he enjoys painting at his own leisure and participating in art shows every few years. Take time to enjoy some recent works from the artist.
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Adrian Dennis
September - October
Barcelona presents Adrian Dennis on our gallery wall. Join/meet him at the artist's reception on Monday, October 15th from 5pm to 7pm.
If you ask his mother, Adrian has been an artist since his toddler years; yet, her only proof is the doodled-on backs of church bulletins she’s had stashed away in a box for over 30 years. If you ask his friends, the words creative and Adrian are synonymous in their book. But if you ask Adrian, it still feels weird referring to himself as an “ar-teest.”
This is understandable, especially since he spent his first act in life teaching English to high schoolers for seven years. It was in his third year that Adrian lost his grandfather:
Grandpa was a painter, and I’d like to think he took pride in seeing the creative gene continue through me. At some point during every family gathering, he would invite me out to his studio to share his latest work or show me a new technique. Art is how we connected then, and art is how we stay connected today.
So he isn’t classically trained; he’s not even self-taught. He’s grandpa-taught.
Adrian actually inherited his grandfather’s paintbrushes, pallet knives, and easel. “I like the idea that every piece I paint is in some way created by him since I’m using his tools,” explained Adrian, “It’s like the beat goes on, you know?”
When cleaning out the estate, his family discovered dozens of paintings thrown in a pile and locked up in one of his sheds. “Apparently Grandpa thought they were crap, but we loved them,” laughed Adrian. “I’ve thought about that pile of misfit paintings a lot. Why didn’t he ever share them? Why have I not been sharing mine? So, here I am.”
Barcelona Restaurant is Adrian’s Columbus Art Scene debut.
