Russell Tyler. Radiant Fields

Denny Gallery is pleased to announce Russell Tyler, Radiant Fields, running from May 3 to June 14, 2015. This is Tyler’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.
Russell Tyler creates geometric paintings redolent of both the history of abstract painting and the contemporary image space of the computer screen. While sensuous and tactile, with expressively applied oil paint and rich impasto, Tyler’s work is also highly structured and unfolds with deliberate shifts in color schemes and forms. The work invites a playful dialogue with several dueling movements from the history of abstraction, including Minimalism, Concrete Art, and Expressionism. While Tyler’s work shows the strong influence of artists from these movements such as Josef Albers, the work is also distinctly of its time, related to digital technologies both outmoded and new. The unfolding blocks of color refer to the computer’s organization of virtual dimensional space on a flat surface. In Radiant Fields, Tyler unveils new gestural paintings without the geometric structure of the earlier work. The emergence of these paintings in Tyler’s work exposes his deeper artistic character, prizing openness, flexibility, humor, and surprise.