Work samples
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It Fit The Description(Please see the project for the full description) "It Fit The Description" is both an autobiographical narrative and a social critique. It’s based on an incident in pre-k when a white boy approached me and said, “You’re black”. I replied, “No I’m not. I’m brown”. I grabbed a brown and a black crayon and held them to my skin to prove that the brown crayon matched me, not the black one. With that memory in mind, I removed wrappers from brown crayons and rewrapped them with labels from black crayons... I'm illustrating how reducing a spectrum of browns to a single color becomes problematic when police interact with African Americans. The sounds of sirens and “Ring Around The Rosie”, a nursery rhyme about The Black Death, extend the narrative. Site-specific video installation, stereo sound
About Tyler Yvette
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Tyler Yvette Wilson is a multidisciplinary artist who primarily works with text, photography, and video. She blends children’s motifs, autobiographical, current, and historical narratives to discuss the troubling foundations that underlie most of Western society and to expose the malleable nature of history. Tyler was raised in Austin, TX and Atlanta, GA. She studied at Davidson College from 2010 to 2016. After graduating with a B.A. in Studio Art, she attended Oglethorpe University… more
Broken English [Punctuation]
Riddled with negative depictions, these tales reinforce Western notions of social hierarchies based on race, class and gender. To counter that, I recklessly dismembered pages from the books and literally disrupted the English narrative. By mixing the dictionaries and stories together, Broken English directly connects invasion, imposition, and implication.
Twisted Tongues
"Twisted Tongues" is an ongoing series that alters nursery rhymes and children's tales to shed light on the foundation of violence that underlies western culture. It takes the form of several iterations. In these artist's book, a noose strings stories sung by brown skin.
It Fit The Description
With that memory in mind, I removed wrappers from brown crayons and rewrapped them with labels from black crayons. It’s a comment about how the diversity found in a spectrum of brown skin tones is categorized as one color. With this particular piece, I am illustrating how this becomes an issue when police interact with Black people. The sounds of sirens and “Ring Around The Rosie”, a nursery rhyme about The Black Death, extend the narrative.
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Installation view of "It Fit The Description"Installation view of "It Fit The Description"
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It Fit The Description(Please see the project for the full description) "It Fit The Description" is both an autobiographical narrative and a social critique. It’s based on an incident in pre-k when a white boy approached me and said, “You’re black”. I replied, “No I’m not. I’m brown”. I grabbed a brown and a black crayon and held them to my skin to prove that the brown crayon matched me, not the black one. With that memory in mind, I removed wrappers from brown crayons and rewrapped them with labels from black crayons... I'm illustrating how reducing a spectrum of browns to a single color becomes problematic when police interact with African Americans. The sounds of sirens and “Ring Around The Rosie”, a nursery rhyme about The Black Death, extend the narrative. Site-specific video installation, stereo sound
23 Famous Stories Retold
To listen to the audio, please follow this link and scroll to "Oral History" :http://tyleryvette.com/portfolio/jack-be-nimble/
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23 Famous Stories Retold.jpgThe text on the glass and broadsides
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Figures Reading "23 Famous Stories Retold"A view from inside the conference room
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23 Famous Stories Retold
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Detail
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Twisted TonguesHand-Bound Artist’s Book (leather, rope, inkjet prints on archival paper)
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Detail of artist's bookHand-Bound Artist’s Book (leather, rope, inkjet prints on archival paper) from the series "Twisted Tongues"