Rashod Taylor has more work acquired by MFAH and is also part of the permanent collections of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture, The Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

Feature acknowledges how the subtleties in Taylor’s work- gestures, objects, framing choices push our psychology, engagement, and emotion. Tabula rasa gaze, a banana peel, a flag, a divided portrait. The media itself symbolic- at its invention, Black Americans were yet enslaved.

This exhibition considers how art-making itself is a type of love language, exploring conceptual concerns and narratives beyond reductive perspectives that center eros as the ultimate form of attachment and offer insights into the question, “How do we prioritize tenderness against debilitating social conditions?”

Congratulations to Rashod Taylor whose Little Black Boy series was acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Three photographs from Taylor’s ongoing project have entered the MFAH’s permanent collection. Taylor uses the frameworks and methods allied with the history of fine art portraiture to contemplate his own family’s narrative within contemporary America.