‘I Make My Bones’ at Tyler Park Presents

“For this exhibition, I would like to speak more from the heart of the person who peers at you from the back of the gallery eager for you to ask a question,” Tyler Park writes in his press release for the inaugural exhibition in his new West Adams space. The show, I Make My Bones, celebrates Tyler Park Present’s move to a “a more ‘gallery’ looking gallery” (as Park describes his new sun-drenched, high-ceilinged space).

The exhibition looks back to TPP’s four-year oeuvre, and the artists who have been integral to the the gallery’s voice. Loose connections between works by eight artists emerge across the show: the blooming organic nature of Andrea Chung’s crystalline sugar crystals on paper echo Julian Rogers’ nearby painting of psychedelic-colored clouds. The warped perspective found in the painted figure in Daniel Ingroff’s Yolk seems kindred with Samantha Roth’s Palindromes, a colored pencil work that pictures various views of a fractured swimming figure that stack over each other in beautifully chaotic layers.

And while these visual connections can be satisfying, the show can also be viewed, simply, as a group of works that cohabitate, like a room full of friends, gathered together under a common purpose.

Photo: I Make My Bones at Tyler Park Presents. Image courtesy of the gallery. Photo: Brica Wilcox.