David Tycho

Vancouver, BC

Artworks

Bio

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.

 



Curriculum Vitae

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,

  • B.Ed. in Visual Arts Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 1983

   Studied painting under celebrated Canadian artist Gordon A. Smith

  • Diploma, Vancouver Film School, Vancouver, 2004

 

 

  • “David Tycho: Navigating City Realities by Way of Artwork” by Mary Wilson,  The Art Insight, New York, March 19, 2024
  • “David Tycho’s Urban Allegories Illuminate Ian Tan Gallery” by Sakchi 

     Khandelwal, BNN News, Hong Kong, March 1, 2024

  • “David Tycho” by Renée Rose, Explore Art Magazine, Chicago, USA, 

     March, 2024

  • “David Tycho”  A 10-year survey, video by Aurelio Salvador, November, 2023
  • “David Tycho: Urbania in Vancouver” by Denis Taylor, Painters Tubes 

     Magazine, UK and Sweden, April, 2023

  • “Contemporary Abstract Artist David Tycho” by Denis Taylor, Painters Tubes 

     Magazine, UK and Sweden, June, 2022

  •  “Arts Rational”, Co-op Radio, interviewed by James Mainguy, Vancouver, 

     Nov. 9, 2020

  •  “Faces and Figures of David Tycho”, by Denis Taylor, TAG magazine

     UK and Sweden, June, 2020

  •  “Expressionist Painter David Tycho”, by Zin Zannnie, The Crazy  Mind, 

     Singapore, May, 2020

  • The Artist’s Voice” podcast, interviewed by Jerry Hardesty, Salt Lake City, 

    USA, Feb. 8, 2020

  • “Discovering the Art of David Tycho” by Denis Taylor, Painters Tubes Magazine,

    UK and Sweden, October, 2018

  • “Two artists walk into a bar” podcast, interviewed by Carol McQuaid, 

    Vancouver, March 29, 2018

  • “North by Northwest” CBC Radio, interviewed by Sheryl MacKay, Vancouver, 

    March 25, 2018

  • City of Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, Canada   
  • City of Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, Canada
  • University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
  • University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
  • Allvision Canada Inc., Toronto, Canada
  • GBR Foundation, Manila, Philippines
  • Gateway Property Holdings Inc., Manila, Philippines
  • Intergulf Development Group, Vancouver, Canada
  • Kaplan International College, Toronto, Canada
  • …in addition to many more corporate and private collections in Canada, USA, France, Germany, Switzerland, UK, Belgium, Japan, China, Philippines and Singapore.
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