
New York Rhapsody
David Tycho
Vancouver, BC
David Tycho
David Tycho
David Tycho
David Tycho
My preoccupation over the past few years has been urbanization and the urban experience, creating works that consider the uneasy coexistence of opulence, beauty, densification, poverty, decay, alienation and marginalization found in most urban centres.
My creative process involves absorbing and synthesizing these urban phenomena into personal descriptions, reactions and interpretations, drawing upon my own formal preoccupations with line, shape, colour, gesture and texture.
Although the built environment is generally used as a starting point, the works evolve and transform in an intuitive fashion to the point where representational elements are distilled, intensified and occasionally usurped by subconscious narratives and aesthetic impulses.
Although my work is inspired primarily by Vancouver, New York and Tokyo, the artworks are not so much about a specific city or neighbourhood, but act, rather, as more of an essence or archetype that expresses the idea of urban-ness. They are visual and psychological metaphors for all that a city thrusts at us, encapsulating the yin and yang of contemporary urban existence.
Although historically a painter, I have in recent years been exploring photography and digital manipulation, creating digital composites derived from my photographs and paintings. I have been printing these hybrid images on aluminum, using a process known as dye sublimation. These images are multi-layered and multi-faceted, blurring the line between analogue and digital, painting and photography, fine art and photo-journalism.
SOPA Fine Arts, Kelowna, Canada
The Christopher Hill Gallery, Napa Valley, USA
Paul Stewart Gallery, Paris, France
Allison Thompson Art, Los Angeles, USA
2024 Urban Allegories Ian Tan Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2020 Urbania Ian Tan Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2018 Fire and Rain South Main Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2017 Station to Station South Main Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2016 Metropolis South Main Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2011 The Vital Gesture Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2010 The Vital Gesture Gallery IMA., Seattle, USA
2008 The River Series Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2007 Black Tusk Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1998 Elements II Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, USA
1998 Elements II Simon Patrich Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1996 Elements Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, USA
1995 Rain Shadow Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, USA
1995 Primordial Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, Canada
1994 Earth and Sky Patrick Doheny Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1993 The Archetype Series Alexander Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2024 Featured Artist, Christopher Hill Gallery, Napa, California, USA
2023 Three Perspectives, Art Works Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
What Moves You, Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2022 NEXT, The Cultch Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
The Poetry Project, Gallery George, Vancouver, Canada
Artists for Ukraine, Art Works Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2021 Essential Travel, The Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
The Poetry Project, Gallery George, Vancouver, Canada
2019 Displacement, Arts Factory, Vancouver, Canada
Selected Gallery Artists, South Main Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Selected Gallery Artists, Frame Society Gallery, Singapore
2017 The Other Art Fair Brooklyn Expo Center, New York, USA
2016 A Sense of Place, 3-person show, Gurevich Fine Art Winnipeg, Canada
2015 Selected Gallery Artists, Gallery I.M.A., Seattle, USA
2011 Selected Gallery Artists, Frame Society Gallery, Singapore
2009 Invitational Masters Gallery, Calgary, Canada
2008 Vistas and Visions Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2007 Tribute to Rotonde Gallery Gabrichidze, Brussels, Belgium
2005 Alumni Exhibition University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
2005 Selected Gallery Artists Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, USA
2003 Abstracte Elegant Don O’Melveny Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1998 La Galerie du Projet Geneva, Switzerland
1995 Space, Time, Spirit 3-person show, Fran Willis Gallery, Victoria,
Studied painting under celebrated Canadian artist Gordon A. Smith
Khandelwal, BNN News, Hong Kong, March 1, 2024
March, 2024
Magazine, UK and Sweden, April, 2023
Magazine, UK and Sweden, June, 2022
Nov. 9, 2020
UK and Sweden, June, 2020
Singapore, May, 2020
USA, Feb. 8, 2020
UK and Sweden, October, 2018
Vancouver, March 29, 2018
March 25, 2018