SOLO EXHIBITION
SOLO EXHIBITION
SOLO EXHIBITION
The World's Leading Contemporary Fine Art Gallery
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The World's Leading Contemporary Fine Art Gallery
Carly
Tyll
CANADA
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“Questioning and challenging laws of nature, I examine the entanglement of existence as both finite and infinite.”
Carly Tyll is an emerging conceptual artist born on July 2nd, 1991. Based in Toronto, Ontario, she earned a degree in Fine Arts at OCAD University, majoring in Photography. While this allowed her the opportunity to refine how she saw the world, it ultimately left her infatuated with the unseen.
Characterizing the likeness of a deeply emotional and passionate nature, I use gesture and implied movement as a way of rhythmically suggesting a radius of emotion tied to the explorative nature of creativity, as well as the yielding dexterity to which it has the power to dominate its vessel.
Branching into photo-illustration, she had the opportunity to create rather than capture, exhibiting a unique inhibition to the mundane, which can also be seen in her explorations of drawing, painting, sculpture, collage, and film, often demonstrating an inter-media approach. Synthesizing aestheticism and substance, the intention of her work is to inspire and illuminate.
To the wonderment of obscurity, I created this series in a reductionist fashion, alleviating its didactic qualities in favor of experiencing its essence. Averaging color and fixating on texture, parallels are drawn between the micro and macro, capturing common items as curious representations.
In an effort to broaden her visual vocabulary, she allows a dialogue to remain present between her and the work. Often developing her dexterity in response to an immense imagination and indomitable dedication to its liveliness, much of her process is self-taught and therefore open to experimentation.
“Being the product of a profound longing for purpose and liberation, I allow my work to unfold naturally, rather than relying on a particular mode of interpretation.”
Considering the process of her work to be analogous to its intent, her work often changes and evolves over the course of its gestation. She creates because it’s fundamental to her very existence, feeding an insatiable hunger of the soul.
“Invested in the interest of ethereal evolution, my work reveals a curious and honest examination of the human experience intertwined with my own whimsical and sensitive nature.”
Captivated by the conception of that which is beyond comprehension, her work often engages in an escapist fashion, revealing remnants of the unconscious. In reverence to the beautiful and the sublime, she reflects upon the awe-inspiring wonders of reality within the physical and metaphysical realms, contrasting and comparing the two as both binary and singular.
Interested in exploring phase transition in relation to thermodynamics, I interpret each system in adherence with the element it embodies. Re-imagined as rhythmic interactions of textural transformation, emphasis is placed on internal energy and the laws in which these systems change with time.
“Venturing beyond the realm of realism, I began to deviate from traditional modes of photography, finding inspiration in surrealism and expressionism.”
Deriving inspiration from our formulaic understanding of energy, that being, equal to mass times the speed of light squared, each frame demonstrates a transformative burst of creation. Characterized by its capacity to be seen, I envision each point of emergence as being between fluid and form.
Contemplating consciousness as an axis to which all things exist, her work reveals a romanticized rendering of reality, characterized by the power of potentiality. Permeating the borders of perception, she invites the viewer to question the way in which they see the world, often demonstrating dream-like depictions of the mundane.
Drifting among the fractals of memory and time, perception breathes passion, persuading those vulnerable to its grasp. Envisaged as a woman wandering the landscape of her own psyche, endowed by the burden of imagination, I suggest an inherent singularity to the forces that conquer and free the soul.
Enhanced through the use of staging and post-production, her work presents an otherworldly escape into a realm of symbolism and sentiment, saturated with dignity, detail, and delicacy, drenched in tenderness and desire.
Visualizing the dimensions of choice and circumstance, this piece was inspired by ambiguity in itself. Among the chaos and contradiction of concrete crescendos and vacant intervals, light and shadow emerge as illustrative insinuations of the illusion it carries out.
First receiving recognition as a Semifinalist in the 2014 Adobe Design Achievement Award’s “Traditional Media – Photography” segment, she was later recognized as a Semifinalist again in 2017, this time in the “Fine Arts Motion Graphics and Animation” segment. First exhibiting her work in 2015 in OCADU’s “Festival of the Body” Toronto exhibit, her work was also featured later that year in The Ontario Science Centre’s “Redefining Bodies: A Focus on Prosthesis.”
Releasing traditional impressions of identity, I created this series with the intent of reducing the exterior and focusing on the anatomy. Alluding to a connectivity between the frames, and by extension, the whole, text is used as a reference to the ambiguity each subject carries in their identity.
“Exploring concepts relating to Philosophy, Psychology, Physics, Mathematics, and Spirituality, the emphasis of my work is placed on the human condition.”
Bearing a world that breaks us, bruises us, burns us and betrays us, we look to the comforts of everyday life. Contemplated as an axis to which inner lives digest, the bed is used as a tableau within this series to explore the turbulent, tranquil, and tantalizing faces of love, life, and solitude.
Carly made her international debut in Milano, Italy in 2020, exhibiting at M.A.D.S.' “#Mil@no Photo Award." She later returned in 2021 for their “Love My Body” exhibit. During this time, she became involved with various other galleries around the world, participating internationally in exhibits such as, Visionary Projects and Lohme Art Gallery’s 2020 “Disrupting the Stillness”, Art Gallery 118’s 2021 “When She Rises, We All Rise”, and Marvelous Art Gallery’s 2021 “Dreams and Resilience”.
Encompassed in these ethereal abstractions, I use light as a means of breathing life into space otherwise unoccupied by physical ailment. Shifting and dividing, flickering in the face of immortality, the nuance of this series can be felt in the familiarity of the subject peering in upon itself.
Throughout the experiences, she has also received numerous awards and recognitions for which she feels incredibly grateful, including a 4th Place Award from Contemporary Art Gallery Online, a Crystal Award from Gallery Ring, a Talent Prize Award from Art Show International, and both, a Silver Award and Best in Show Platinum Award, from Camelback Gallery.
In reverence to the value of knowledge, this series was inspired by a journey of enlightenment. Aspiring to meet the command of the Delphic Oracle, “Know Thyself." The book represents the cultivation of this calling, referencing the quiet introspective nature it embodies.