Chris Boyd Taylor

Chris Boyd Taylor is a sculptor and public artist based in northern Alabama. His work moves between site-specific installations and studio sculpture, drawing on architecture, movement, color, spectatorship, and the ways people inhabit a place. Projects documenting venues of spectatorship across the Southeast and Uruguay are one part of a practice that also includes permanent public art and exhibition work.

His public commissions include Remolcador en Camino at Pablo Neruda Plaza in Montevideo, Uruguay, and The Cardboard Kids at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee. He has exhibited at Nashville International Airport, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, ArtFields, and Huntsville Museum of Art. Taylor was a Fulbright Scholar in 2023 and an Emerging Artist Fellow at Socrates Sculpture Park in 2013. He holds fine arts degrees from The Ohio State University and the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. He teaches sculpture at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

A child sitting in a cardboard spaceship zooms past the stars.
A woman sits on a church pew, in her Sunday best, sound in her faith while a couple sitting in a jam-packed football stadium are jubilant in theirs.
Edward Hopper allows us to ride a half empty train or enjoy a late-night meal at a diner.
A teenager sits in the driver seat for the first time as Mom or Dad teaches them how to drive.
Friends sit in camp chairs staring into a dancing fire, far away from their daily routine.
The work I create comes from a fascination with the transformative power of the places where we reside and the memories and imagination they elicit. Spectatorship, transportation, nostalgia, generative design and the anthropomorphic object are themes driving my studio practice.
As I create work, I imagine: what would it be like to be there? or reminisce on what it was like when I was there, hoping the viewer might do the same.