Tyler Vlahovich
Tyler Vlahovich (b. 1967 Tacoma, Washington) lives and works in Los Angeles.
Tyler Vlahovich paints seemingly casual, but richly sophisticated rapid meditations on form, composition, mark-making, and color, which seek to portray if not ‘nothing,' then at the very least the painterly contours of thinking plastically and multifariously. It is for these reasons that his global practice, although obviously animated by a singular sensibility, does not immediately cohere into a single identifiable style. This is also why his work has such a strange and unpredictable relationship with beauty. Much more a byproduct of other concerns than a primary motivation, his paintings are nevertheless beautiful. The vivid, variously offbeat, playful and breathtaking pictorial events they contain surprise, perplex and delight have a way of seducing the body as much as the eye. They are part and parcel of an idiosyncratic kind of painting that is increasingly hard to account for, and may even be inadmissible. Indeed, in today’s art world, when so much art is obliged to make perfect sense, none of what Vlahovich makes does, if it ever did. And this is precisely why it refreshes, absolutely.
Ongoing solo exhibition includes The Real Story, Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles, 2024.
Recent solo exhibitions include Chris Sharp, Los Angeles at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, 2022; Pulling Up Roots, Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles, 2022; Cares of a Family Man, Lulu, Mexico City, 2020; and Tyler Vlahovich, Feuilleton, Los Angeles, 2020.
Jade Event, 2024. Oil on canvas, 88 x 78 in (223.5 x 198.1 cm)
Jade Event, detail
Installation image, EXPO Chicago 2024, Chris Sharp Gallery, Chicago, 2024
tightly quiet event, 2024. Oil on canvas, 22 x 18 1/2 in (55.9 x 47 cm)
Eternal Drifter, 2023. Oil on canvas, 88 x 78 in (223.5 x 198.1 cm)
Untitled, 2023. Oil on canvas, 56 x 48 in (142.2 x 121.9 cm)
Ephemera Event, 2023. Oil on canvas, 88 x 78 in (223.5 x 198.1 cm)
Ephemera Event, detail
Chamber, 2024. Oil on canvas, 88 x 78 in (223.5 x 198.1 cm)
Installation image, Pulling Up Roots, Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles, 2022
Untitled (6), 2022. Oil on canvas, 56 x 48 in (142.24 x 121.92 cm)
Untitled (2), 2021. Oil on canvas, 32 x 27 in (81.28 x 68.58 cm)
Installation image, Pulling Up Roots, Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles, 2022
Untitled (periwinkle), 2021. Oil on canvas, 56 x 48 in (142.24 x 121.92 cm)
Installation image, Pulling Up Roots, Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles, 2022
Untitled (dark purple), 2021. Oil on board, framed, 13 x 11 in (33.02 x 27.94 cm)
Untitled (big pink), 2021. Oil on canvas, 54 x 48 in (137.1 x 121.92 cm)
Untitled, 2018. Oil on canvas, 48 x 60 in (121.92 x 152.4 cm)
Installation image, Pulling Up Roots, Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles, 2022
Untitled (7), 2022. Oil on canvas, 56 x 48 in (142.24 x 121.92 cm)
Untitled (2), 2022. Oil on canvas, 56 x 48 in (142.24 x 121.92 cm)
Untitled (1), 2022. Oil on canvas, 32 x 27 in (81.28 x 68.58 cm)
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
EXPO Chicago
Chris Sharp Gallery, Chicago
Solo Booth
April 11 - 14, 2024
Material 2023
Chris Sharp Gallery, Mexico City
Group Booth
February 09 - 12, 2023
Art Athina 2022
Chris Sharp Gallery, Athens
Solo Booth
September 17 - 19, 2022
A Minor Constellation
Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles
Group Show
July 30 - September 03, 2022
Pulling Up Roots
Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles
Solo Show
January 29 - March 12, 2022