William Tyler
William Tyler (b.1954) has been working at Creative Growth Art Centre in California since 1978, one of the longest attending artists in the studio. He is a productive, dedicated artist whose precise, ordered black marker drawings on paper reflect a fascination with fantasy and reality and the sometimes thin line between the two. The intricately rendered landscapes and interiors are built through repeated patterns, figures and dialogue boxes into psychological narratives. Tyler draws images from both his personal experience and his opinion of the world and its cultural icons to create a symbolic place where order reigns over emotion but the world of make-believe rules equally with reality.
EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS
2019 TWA Trans World, Galerie Oblique, Switzerland
2019 Outsider Art Fair, Paris
2018 Art is For Everyone, Telegraph Hill Gallery, San Francisco
2017 Storytellers, LAND Gallery, Brooklyn
2016 Madmusée, Liège, Belgium
2015 We Are Not Alone, Fountain Gallery, New York, curated by Matthew Higgs
