STATEMENT
Tyler Sorgman is interested in exploring how the landscape can act as a symbol for the psychological. Sorgman’s recent work includes imagery of plant growth, mountain ranges, storms, and forest fires. A solitary home is often set into these imagined spaces. The scenes Sorgman creates are meant to feel both playful yet perilous; dreamy yet uneasy. Throughout Sorgman’s body of work, there is a play between flatness, depth, and the simplification of complex forms. He builds up layers of paint through repetitive marks and symbols, and sees their accumulation as a reflection of his thoughts, feelings, and anxieties at the time of each individual work’s creation.
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Instagram: @tyler_sorgman_art
EDUCATION
Boston University, Boston, MA, 2015, BFA Painting
Boston University, Boston, MA, 2016, MA Studio Teaching
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2015
- The Telephone Game (group exhibition) Gallery 5, Boston University, Boston MA
- Thesis Exhibition, 808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston MA
2019
- Inspired Views (group exhibition) The Montserrat Gallery, Beverly MA
2020
- National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge MA
- AREA CODE, Main Section, Virtual Art Fair
- Emerging Artists Exhibition, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge MA
- Art in Print Vol. 7 - Featured Artist, Zone3, Allston MA
2021
- Emerging Artist Exhibition, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge MA
- In Sickness And In Heath, Curina, Virtual Exhibition
- Queers Just Wanna Have Fun II, Queerly Collective, Virtual Exhibition
- Dear So & So: Now More Than Ever, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge MA
- Issue #28 Five-Year Anniversary Edition, Create! Magazine Featured Artist
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2016-2017
Elementary Art Teacher, Lillian Jacobs Elementary, Hull MA
2017- Present
Elementary Art Teacher, Ambrose Elementary, Winchester MA