"When I was a kid, the first things I wanted to draw were cars. I see them differently now though, like containers, where the car is a container for the driver in the way that the skull is a container for the mind.

Painting pictures of cars feels like it teaches me something about how we perceive problems and adversity in life. All of the driver's concerns are paused and frozen in a rectangle. Can I learn to view things like that in life?

I’m also interested in the most fundamental things a car does. Inside of this container, I can go forward and backward, I can turn left and right. I have lights. I have a horn, a speedometer. I bought one in a color that I prefer. There’s a radio inside, and I can listen to whatever I want. I can also sleep in here if necessary. I have paperwork that says it’s mine. This is my car." - Taylor White, 2022

Taylor White’s newest series showcases 10 monumental depictions of cars. These sketchy, cartoonish oil-stick paintings are made with broad gestures – some on raw canvas, others on wide color fields. Spontaneous and unrestrained, the pieces suggest an archetypal, basic idea of the car, the epitome of a simplified, absolute conceptual form inspired by the design and history of the problematic East German Trabant 601.