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David Tycho
Canada
About David Tycho
David Tycho was born in Vancouver B.C., and later attended U.B.C., where he studied painting under renowned Canadian artist Gordon Smith. After working through a number of Modernist styles, he arrived at his personal interpretation of figurative expressionism, which remained his focus until moving to Asia in 1984.
In Kyoto, Tycho was exposed to Shodo, a Japanese style of calligraphic painting. He was particularly intrigued by the paintings of Zen monks, whose fluid, gestural brushwork often renders the characters illegible, and ultimately abstract. At the same time, he was also inspired by the paintings of Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, Franz Kline and Willem deKooning, and David soon began to explore abstraction for himself.
In 1990, David began working through a number of abstract styles: from gestural, painterly expressionism, to hard-edged minimalism.
In1995 Tycho began making frequent sojourns into wilderness areas—from the austere deserts of California and Nevada to the coastal rainforests of British Columbia, Washington and Oregon. Forms and colours of the natural environment found their way onto his palette, and, in combination with intuitive aesthetic impulses, the resulting works were a synthesis of landscape painting and abstraction.
A trip to Asia in 2011 rekindled David’s interest in Japan and Japanese art, and his Japan Series is informed and inspired by this. The paintings are more figurative in nature, containing a number of recognizable Japanese themes and motifs.
These days Tycho’s work has taken on a markedly urban look, inspired by the dynamism of large cities. He is also experimenting with collage techniques.
David has exhibited his works in Vancouver, Victoria, Kelowna, Penticton, Whistler, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Seattle, Los Angeles, Brussels, Geneva, Singapore and Manila, and his work is collected on three continents. His paintings can also be seen in numerous feature films.
In addition to painting, Tycho is an often-published writer of articles on art, social issues and wilderness travel, and winner of a CBC Canadian Literary Award for a personal essay on Nevada’s Great Basin Desert. He has also contributed to two books, written nine screenplays, two novels, and numerous short stories. He has been interviewed on radio, television and for print media numerous times.
David now divides his time between painting, writing, teaching, traveling, cycling, hiking and karate. He currently lives in Vancouver.
DAVID TYCHO: ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Despite the efforts of art theorists, critics and historians to fill libraries with ideas concerning the nature of art, words always fall short, and in many cases miss the mark entirely. Words and painting, it seems, have never made good companions. This is particularly true of abstract painting, which tends to resist accurate or meaningful interpretation. At the end of the day, there is only the painting, the viewer, and silence. This enigma is what sustains my interest in abstract painting.
Although my work often contains external references—a horizon line for example—it is not so much concerned with the nature of landscape as it is with the process of painting and the expressive potential of paint. The natural or built environments are used as starting points from which each painting evolves and transforms, until the external references are subdued by elements of abstract expressionist painting. The paintings are ultimately explorations of line, color, form and gesture, and their ability to elicit emotional or spiritual responses. They are intended to be viewed as one would listen to instrumental music, without feeling a need to attach a meaning or narrative.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 Recent Works, Studio 430, Vancouver
2012 The Japan Series, Studio 430, Vancouver
2011 The Vital Gesture, Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver
2010 The Vital Gesture, Gallery I.M.A., Seattle
2008 The River Series, Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver
2007 Black Tusk: Variations on a Theme, Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver
2006 Recent Works, GBR Foundation, Manila
1998 Elements II, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle
1998 Elements II, Simon Patrich Gallery, Vancouver
1996 Elements, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle
1995 Rainshadow, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle
1995 Primordial, City of Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond
1994 Earth and Sky, Patrick Doheny Gallery, Vancouver
1993 The Archetype Series, Alexander Gallery, Vancouver
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 Rouge Gallery, Saskatoon
Frame Society Gallery, Singapore
2013 Rouge Gallery, Saskatoon
Frame Society Gallery, Singapore
2012 Frame Society Gallery, Singapore
Gallery I.M.A., Seattle
2011 Frame Society Gallery, Singapore
Gallery I.M.A., Seattle
Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver
2010 Frame Society Gallery, Singapore
Gallery I.M.A, Seattle
Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver
2009 Masters Gallery, Calgary
Gallery I.M.A., Seattle
Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver
2008 Axis Contemporary Art, Calgary
“U-8” Sopa Fine Art, Kelowna
“Vistas and Visions” Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver
2007 Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver
Art Gallery of the South Okanagan, Penticton
“Tribute to Rotonde”, Gallery Gabrichidze, Brussels
- University of British Columbia, Vancouver
2004 “Group Painting”, Don O’Melveny Gallery, Los Angeles
2003 “Abstracte Elegant”, Don O’Melveny Gallery, Los Angeles
“Group Painting”, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle
2002 “The Night Eclectic”, Don O’Melveny Gallery, Los Angeles
2001 Simon Patrich Gallery, Vancouver
2000 Foster/White Gallery, Seattle
1998 “La Galerie du Projet”, Geneva
1997 The Atrium, Hong Kong Bank of Canada, Vancouver
1995 “Space, Time, Spirit”, Fran Willis Gallery, Victoria
1994 Galerie Woltzen, Edmonton
Shepard Gallery, Whistler
1989 “Images and Objects”, B.C. Festival of the Arts, Chilliwack
1984 “Richmond Interpretations”, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
- City of Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby
- City of Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond
- GBR Foundation, Manila
- Gateway Property Holdings Inc., Manila
- University of British Columbia, Vancouver
- Burnaby Public Library, Burnaby
- YMCA Language School, Vancouver
- Pacific Language Institute, Vancouver and Toronto
- Stikeman Elliott Lawyers, Vancouver
- Edward Gibson, SFU Gallery Curator (retired), Vancouver
- in addition to numerous private collections in Canada, The U.S.A., Germany,
Switzerland, The U.K., Belgium, Japan, The Philippines and Singapore.
SELECTED MEDIA
- “10 Best Abstract Paintings” by Daniel Ferris, It’s Only Art? March 29, 2013
- “David Tycho: Painter”, a short film by Eric Peterson, November 2012
- “North by Northwest”, CBC Radio regional broadcast, interviewed by Sheryl
MacKay, November 10, 2012
- “The Fine Art of Independence” by David Tycho, Vancouver Sun, November 10,
- "Urban Rush", Shaw T.V. Channel 4, Vancouver, interviewed by Fiona Forbes and Michael Eckford, February 15, 2011
- “North by Northwest”, CBC Radio regional broadcast, interviewed by Sheryl
MacKay, February 13, 2011
- “David Tycho Sees Art in all Facets of Life” video by Glen Baglo,
MontrealGazette.com, February 10, 2011
- David Tycho’s Abstracts Need to be Experienced” by Jennifer Moss,
NationalPost.com, February 10, 2011
- “David Tycho’s Beckoning Gestures” by Jennifer Moss, Vancouver Sun,
February 10, 2011
- “Live From Studio 430” at the Eastside Culture Crawl, CJSF Radio,
interviewed by Jay Peachy, November 27, 2010
- “Urban Rush”, Shaw T.V. Channel 4, Vancouver, interviewed by Fiona Forbes
and Michael Eckford, September 29, 2008
- “Art Beat: David Tycho”, by Bettina Matzkuhn, Essential Vancouver magazine,
July, 2008
- “North by Northwest”, CBC Radio regional broadcast, interviewed by Sheryl
MacKay, November 18, 2007
- “David Tycho”, by Mia Johnson, Preview Magazine, November, 2007
- “Editors Picks: Galleries and Museums” by Alison Malone, Where Vancouver
magazine, November, 2007
- “An Artful Stroll on Gallery Row” by Lloyd Dykk, Vancouver Sun,
October 26, 2007
- “Abstract Expressive Painters” by Daniel Ferris, It’s Only Art? June 11, 2007
- “Abstract Paintings by David Tycho” by Daniel Ferris, Contemporary Art Gallery
Magazine, December, 2006
- “Abstract Elegante” Don O’Melveny Gallery Exhibition Catalogue, March, 2003
- “Between the Covers” CBC Radio national broadcast, interviewed by Peter
Tiefenbach, April, 2002
- “North by Northwest” CBC Radio regional broadcast, interviewed by Sheryl
MacKay, February 3, 2002
- “This Morning”, CBC Radio national broadcast, interviewed by Bill Cameron,
- January 30, 2002
- “When Art Gets the Rational Treatment” by David Tycho, The Vancouver Sun,
February 22, 1997
- “Communications Come through Paint” by Robert Amos, Victoria Times
Colonist, November 9, 1996
- “Mystic Inspiration” by Nancy Wells, Scene Magazine, February 1995
LECTURES and PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Art instructor, Jack Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Burnaby, March 2013
- Lecture, “The Role of the Artist”, Mensa Conference, Richmond, November
2002
- Lecture, “Reading the Land”, Meadowlark Festival, Pentiction, May 2002
- Lecture, “Roads to Abstraction”, Richmond Art Gallery, February, 1995
- Art instructor, Vancouver School Board, Vancouver, 1990 – 1991
- Art instructor, Dorset College, Vancouver, 1988 – 1990
EDUCATION
- B.Ed. in Visual Arts Education, U.B.C., 1983. Studied painting under Gordon
Smith.
- Diploma, Vancouver Film School, 2002
OTHER
- A writer with numerous book contributions, published articles and a CBC Canadian Literary Award to his credit; also an avid wilderness hiker, cyclist and karate student.
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Brasov, Brasov, Romania
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Paris, France
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Bristol, United Kingdom
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Berlin, Germany
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