After completing his BFA in 2016, Tyler was recruited as an animator for the Polish feature-film Loving Vincent. During his year abroad, he immersed himself in Europe’s art museums, drawn to study and copy the works of the Old Masters. This reverence for tradition culminated in Tyler’s completion of Grand Central Atelier’s core program in 2022, where he currently teaches drawing. His work today demonstrates a facility and concise legibility that is unique to hand and eyes honed for truthful observation, informed by the drawing language of the European Masters.

“My paintings are a meditation of people, nature, and their relationship to one another. I work from both life and memory, creating objects of art that are records of felt experience as much as they are poetic arrangements of line and color. My intention is to create works that exist at the intersection between vulnerable specificity and sublime universality; works that do not insist upon themselves, but instead invite an introspective silence.

”Emory is both an intimate portrait of a friend and an abstract arrangement of light and form that dances between high and low values precisely, deliberately, and hopefully beautifully. Visually, I was inspired by the timeless icon portraits of the early Renaissance, as well as the striking value arrangements of baroque painting. The creation of this painting was a focused meditation of presence and balance.”