tyler cufley: nevermind that, here's tyler cufley
third floor atrium gallery
june 23 - september 3, 2006
Focusing intensely on the relationship between surroundings and material, Tyler Cufley produces works that are critical of contemporary Western culture through a variety of readily-accessible materials‚ plastics, plywood, bondo, paints, airbrush, clay, vinyl, rayon flocking, resins and digital photography. Cufley states: I decided to focus on materials and ideas that deal with our frumpy cookie cutter environment. Mountains are no longer the spiritual stomping grounds of the gods but an off-road track for SUV‚ and a studio set for GPS devices and cell phones. The sun and sky I fabricated sits against the wall like a cinema screen, made from sheets of MDF and painted with enamels. Recently I created a series of drawings of geese in typical art-school fashion and a gun that uses burgers as ammunition. I then shot the burgers at the drawings leaving the grease all over the geese. The great American Dream has become vacuum-formed into an American Landscape that now includes greasy geese.
About the Artist
Tyler Cufley was born in San Francisco, CA in 1974. He received a BFA from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA in 1999 and an M.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL in 2003. Recent exhibitions include: The Allegorical Landscape, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL; The Island on Top of the World, 1R Gallery, Chicago, IL; The Summer Show, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL; Pseudononymous, Project 1506, Seattle, WA, and My life was far away, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL.
(above)
Mountianview, archival inkjet print, 24x20 inches,
2003