Taylor Anton White was born in San Diego, California. Before venturing into the art world, he served a nine-year career as a Marine in the U.S. military. Following his service, he pursued his passion for art at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. During his time there, he experimented with various forms of art, including performance art, painting, and sculpture, and graduated with a BA in studio art in 2017.
White is renowned for his large-scale abstract assemblages that merge traditional mediums with found materials. His work explores the sculptural possibilities of painting in the digital age, incorporating utilitarian materials such as rivets, cardboard, wood, spray paint, textiles, and sewn objects, alongside traditional mediums like acrylic, charcoal, and oil stick.
White's creative process is characterized by fragmentation, layering, and improvisation. He intuitively adds and subtracts marks and materials, often starting without a predetermined plan. As he mentioned in an interview with Whitehot Magazine, "Play is critical to my art-making... I usually start without any plan, although I often give myself some kind of restriction, like it's Monday and I want to have a new painting by Friday... I try to intuitively put things together and then delete things until it's there."
His work recalls elements of formalism, abstract expressionism, modernism, contemporary abstraction, Internet art, and the anti-aesthetic. Modernist influences are evident in his frequent use of grids.