Drawings & Paintings

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  • A self-portrait of Sunaura Taylor on the right side of the frame, while on the left side of the frame, in a similar stance, is a large gray manatee. Both seem to be floating underwater.

Self-Portrait as Manatee

2013
Oil on Paper
11″ x 11″

  • A sketch of Sunaura Taylor sitting, looking up and out at the top-left corner of the frame. In her lap stands a chicken, whose gaze is turned in the same direction.

Chicken Sketch #1

  • A sketch of a chicken’s feet, head, and body, with the face of Sunaura Taylor, facing left and looking out of the frame.

Chicken Sketch #2

  • A painting of dozens of chickens marching from the  left to the right of the frame. Among them is a portrait of Sunaura Taylor, who marches with them.

Self Portrait Marching With Chickens

2008
Oil on Wood Panel
10″ x 10″

  • A painting of dozens of portraits of Sunaura Taylor behind the bars of chicken cages, looking dejected and hopeless. The painting seems to be in conversation with one of Sunaura Taylor’s later paintings, Chicken Truck (A painting of dozens of crates of chickens in a chicken truck. The chickens are hemmed in behind bars, some facing out and others lying down. Some of the pens are packed with chickens, while others are empty or contain just a single bird. Some of the bars have been pecked away at or ripped).

Sunnys in Chicken Cages

2008
Oil on Wood Panel
10″ x 10″

  • A painting of many animals looking at the viewer. Among them are white turkeys, a sheep, a water buffalo, a pig, a goat, rabbits, hens, ducks, a lamb, and a bull. Their expressions are angry.

Animal Protest

2010
Watercolor on Paper
8″ x 5″

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