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Valton TylerJourney1970
1970
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In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintings, prints and drawings, whose style defies convenient labels. Abstract, surreal, cartoonish, sci-fi fantastic, metaphysical, apocalyptic-Baroque - all of these fit but also fall short of fully describing his art." (The Living Arts, June 13, 2000, p. B2)
Valton Tyler was born in 1944 in Texas, where "the industrial world of oil refineries made a long-lasting impression on Valton as a very young child living in Texas City." (Reynolds, p. 25) After leaving Texas City, Valton made his way to Dallas, where he briefly enrolled at the Dallas Art Institute, but found it to be too social and commercial for his taste. After Valton's work was introduced to Donald Vogel (founder of Valley House Gallery), "Vogel arranged for Tyler to use the printmaking facilities in the art department of the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where the young artist essentially taught himself several demanding printmaking techniques. 'It was remarkable,' Vogel says. 'Not only did he learn complicated etching methods, but he was able to express himself powerfully in whatever medium he explored.' Vogel became the publisher of Tyler's prints. Among them, the artist made editions of some 50 different images whose sometimes stringy abstract forms and more solid, architecturally arresting elements became the precursors of his later, mature style." (Gomez, Raw Vision #35, p. 36)
"Journey" is plate number 31, and is reproduced in "The First Fifty Prints: Valton Tyler" with text by Rebecca Reynolds, published for Valley House Gallery by Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, Texas, 1972.
In "The First Fifty Prints," Reynolds wrote, "In this plate Valton guides us through the infinities of time, space, and the evolution of life that leads man through his journey in search of a meaning and purpose in life. The artist briefly charts biological evolution in the forms of the unicellular body, the fish, and primitive man, indirectly symbolized by his artifact, the boat. We are left without evidence of man's travels through progress and civilization, but the artist has made his introductions brief and simplistic in order that the profundity of his message may be felt in the spaces these forms float in rather than in their definitions."
Reynolds continues, "The figure on the left represents man of the past, present, and future who, like a pawn, has been moved through time and has lost himself trying to comprehend where he has been traveling to and why. His body, used and decayed, is very near death. His eyes droop from the sockets, and one breast has turned brittle and thorny. His hand clutches a horn he carries to sing out his faith and assuredness, but he will sing no more. He has succumbed to the fact that life is only an endless journey of suffering. The watch on his wrist marks no hour. It only shows the intervals of infinity between points around the vicious Circle of Time. The large nebulous globe in the upper right area is the brain center of man. It dominates the universe, and yet it is only another vast cosmos of confusion in which man loses himself. The entire design is suspended in the stillness of an eternal purgatory. This is the freedom that awaits the child in 'Birth Then?'" (the previous plate, no. 30) (Reynolds, p. 98)
Paper size: 21 1/2 x 18 3/4 inches
Edition: 5 Artists Proofs Imp. 50 Signed Prints Imp.
This print is neither matted nor framed.
Bibliography:
Edward M. Gomez, "Futuristic Forms Frolic Under Eerie Texan Skies," The New York Times, June 13, 2000, page B2.
Edward M. Gomez, "Valton Tyler's Techno-Organic Landscapes," Raw Vision 35, Summer 2001, pages 34-39.
Rebecca Reynolds, "The First Fifty Prints: Valton Tyler," published for Valley House Gallery by Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, Texas, 1972.
- Creator:Valton Tyler (1944, American)
- Creation Year:1970
- Dimensions:Height: 16.5 in (41.91 cm)Width: 13.75 in (34.93 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Dallas, TX
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