"TIBERIUS" by CHADWICK TYLER

Honey Space Gallery is pleased to announce Tiberius, a solo exhibition of new photography by Chadwick Tyler. For his first gallery exhibition, the artist has created a series of original black & white photographic portraits depicting an array of expressive & sullenly beautiful female characters. In Tiberius, Tyler juxtaposes the mystery and obscurity of the antiquated image with the clarity of deep emotion: transcendence, rage, ecstasy, hysteria, confusion, lethargy, exhaustion, lament, abjection, resignation, etc. The series is a sort of lexicon of unexplained broken beauty. An intense sense of solitude underscores Tiberius. Mortality, evoked by the cinematic overhead lighting used throughout the series, seems always at the periphery; the subjects’ eyes are often turned upward, as if quite aware of their own vulnerability. The meticulous styling is suggestive of a broad range of historical social classes, but this is complicated by the disheveled appearance of even the most glamorous figures. Odd bodily contortions and nudity seem to indicate a loss of self-consciousness that further unsettles the work’s visual allusion to a more formal past. Tiberius displays a looseness of interpretation and informality that allows for a scope of emotional representation extending beyond the work’s historical references. Raw emotional vulnerability, perhaps once seen as something to hide, here is the ultimate strength. rsvp@chadwicktyler.com