Museum of Outdoor Arts
Greenwood Village, Colorado
MOA is an outdoor museum. It has an outdoor art collection of nearly 100 pieces of art, ranging from sculpture to murals. We also host a variety of art events.
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Artist: Taylor Nkomo (b. 1957)
Taylor Nkomo, born 1957 in Bulawayo, is a well-known painter and print maker. As a sculptor he transfers a stone, a thing of beauty into an even more beautiful object. Taylor Nkomo is an invited artist at Chapungu Sculpture Park, where he is known for sculptures which are always elegant and consummately graceful. His work is described as elegant and formally striking. His subject matter deals with rural life, and the beauty and dignity that people lend to everyday tasks that ensure their survival.
Painting, fabric, drawing and sculpting – Taylor Nkomo is a versatile artist. Following his education at the Mzilikazi and Craft Center in Bulawayo he studied from 1970 to 1973 at the polytechnical college in his hometown, afterwards worked as a graphic artist at the National Gallery in Harare and finally started sculpting in 1977. Meanwhile he has received numerous awards for his works; his sculptures, textiles and paintings have been exhibited worldwide.
Taylor lets himself be inspired by the environment and is not restricted thematically. In some of his works he focuses on the spirituality of nature and on others he describes the central meaning of family ties within the Zimbabwean society. Often he sketches his ideas on paper and then transposes the drawings into stone. Thus sculptures are created which show powerful expressiveness.
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