NEW YEAR NEW BLOG

New blog is tylerlosjones.tumblr.com

Website is tylerlosjones.com 

I won't be posting here anymore, but I'm going to leave it up as an archive.

See you in tumblrland

Tyler

Studio

This is what the studio is looking like these days.

Here are some test prints for a new piece. The printer really had its way with the top sections, but the blue is kinda nice really...

PDF and website

It has taken a long time but I have a PDF of For Levertov (the sea is turning its dark pages) from the timescale series available for anyone who wants to print it off and fold it themselves.

The piece can be found here on my recently updated website.

I haven't mentioned the site here before, because I've been tweaking it for awhile now.  There are a few more updates and text to get on there, but it is close enough to tell people about.

Calibration Shift

I have a couple pieces in Calibration Shift, a show that opens this weekend at Third Party Gallery in Cincinnati.

The other artists in the show make great work and the folks at Third Party have been really helpful.  You should check it out if you're in the area.

BYOB YYC II

 Calgary's BYOB II (Bring Your Own Beamer) opens tonight at Central Memorial Park. I'll have a piece in the show that serves as a study for a work that will be shown in Cincinnati next month.

The exhibition is part of the Particle and Wave fest and is on view between 8 and 10:30 tonight.

Here's a video from last years BYOB in calgary. Fun.

Owls

Here's the start of a little side project I've been having fun with in Los Angeles.  I think there will be a zine too.

http://laowls.tumblr.com/

Esker Foundation

Last Thursday was the opening of New Alberta Contemporaries the first show at the new Esker Foundation in Calgary. Although I was down here in LA, the reviews are positive and people say the opening was really energetic. Thanks so much to Caterina and all the people at the gallery for putting the exhibition together, I'm looking forward to seeing it!

On July 26th at the Esker, Kris Weinmann and I will be talking about our work in the studio and the Calgary arts community. You should come if you can, its free but they are asking people to register.

Summer updates

I've been out of the country for almost 6 weeks now, which is the (bad) excuse I'll use for not posting any updates for a while...

I'm currently in Los Angeles visiting Jacqueline Bell, who just happens to have a great review of the most recent Andrea Zittel exhibition in the new issue of C Magazine. Nice one Jacque!

Before LA, I was in Portland for open engagement . Where the all-star crew of Amy Ball , Kari Cwynar and Jenn Jackson organized YOUHALL, a series of rotating exhibitions based out of a UHaul truck. They were kind enough to invite me to show some new work and while I don't have many good images of the piece I made, I do have a picture of them striking me off of the schedule for the day.

The work was a stack of printed and folded screen shots from a tourism video of Moraine Lake .  The work was free for viewers to take and hopefully supported the organizers in complicating the ways in which Banff is represented and represents itself.

Portland is the second place I've exhibited the folded works as free stacks for people to take away. The first stack show was 539 days at Haight Gallery back in May. I don't have any images of that work with me,  but I'll try to post them here soon.

Sean MacAlister show

My good friend Sean MacAlister is having a show at Haight gallery in a couple of weeks and I think everyone should go.  Friday, March 23rd, mark your calendars.

Time scales

I've been in the studio a lot over the past couple months, but I'm just starting to feel like things are getting somewhere.

I've been thinking and reading about time in relation to ecology and feel that time has been an important undercurrent in my work over the past couple of years.

These are some recent pieces that have been addressing time / time-scales more directly. I'm still working on titles... All are all folded inkjet prints on paper, 20" x 12".

Books

I got my books back from the binders a couple weeks ago. I wasn't going to post pictures until closer to the opening in January but the building won't be ready until March now...

Five books total, each a different species. More info soon.

In the works

Here are a couple ideas that I've got on the go right now.

Books

I've been working on a series of five hand-cut books for the inaugural show at the new Esker Foundation. I'm excited to be in the show, which will have work from over forty Alberta based artists.

Here are some of the book pages and the hand cut letters that I keep finding all over my studio.

Olympic Plaza

These are the banners that I made for Olympic Plaza in downtown Calgary. A total of six designs repeated six times.  Each banner has the name of a migratory bird species that is currently listed as endangered in Alberta. 

I was so glad that the text shows up clearly from across the plaza, and really dissolves as you get closer.

Species are:

-Eskimo Curlew, Numenius borealis

-Mountain Plover, Charadrius montanus

-Piping Plover, Charadrius melodus circumcinctus

-Red Knot, rufa subspecies, Calidris canutus rufa

-Sage Thrasher, Oreoscoptes montanus

-Whooping Crane, Grus americana

whoa, its been a while

Time has been passing by at an alarming rate. Life is busy in all directions, especially the studio. I'll try and catch up on whats been going on starting from where I left off. Bellow are some images from the show that concluded my residency at the ledge gallery. the show was up early August through mid September.

All photos taken by my good friend Joe Kelly.

top to bottom:

-Banff Springs Snail detail 1

  Acrylic on Polyester, 2011

-Banff Springs Snail detail 2

  Acrylic on Polyester, 2011

-Tiny Cryptantha

  Acrylic on Polyester, 2011

  Dimensions variable

-Tiny Cryptantha detail 1

  Acrylic on Polyester, 2011

-Greater Short-Horned Lizard rear view

Acrylic on Polyester, 2011

-Greater Short-Horned Lizard detail 1

  Acrylic on Polyester, 2011

-Greater Short-Horned Lizard detail 2

  Acrylic on Polyester, 2011

-Eskimo Curlew / 1962

  Acrylic on Polyester, 2011

  Dimensions variable

-Ord’s Kangaroo Rat

  Acrylic on Polyester, 2011

  Dimensions variable

-Ord’s Kangaroo Rat detail 1

  Acrylic on Polyester, 2011

-Installation shot

  left to right: Greater Short-Horned Lizard; Five-spotted Bogus Yucca Moth, Non-pollinating Yucca     

  Moth, Yucca Moth and Banff Springs Snail

 

In progress

Here is another banner I'm working on for the EPCOR show.

Eskimo Curlew 1963, acrylic on nylon.

Work in progress

Whooping Crane banners freshly painted and soon to be sewn.

Antler interview

My good friend Angela Dione, (of Market Collective fame) was handed the reins to Antler Magazine for their last issue, and we did a short interview for it.
Find it here
Thanks Angela!

Ord's Kangaroo Rat

Calgary Herald

Yesterday, the Herald published an article on my EPCOR reseidency and some of the projects I've worked on in Calgary. Its always nice to talk to people about what you spend your time doing.

Check it out here