Jim Tyack


 Jim Tyack has a diverse body of work. He has been a practitioner
of postcard and mail art for thirty years and a correspondent with the artist
Ray Johnson, founder of The New York Correspondence School.
His postcard pieces incorporate drawings, mixed media, and collage,
and pursue the implications of the Dada and Surrealist tradition.
Like the postcards, his paintings are charged with line and smudge
in deceptively casual instability, and reflect his concern for the nature
of abstraction.

"To begin a painting is to step into the unknown, into remote corners
of the yet-to-be- discovered surface. I want to enter the mystery
of a system of my own making and attempt to use it as a means
of looking at otherwise contradictory information. The drips and
spatters, the shaky uneven line, nail-hole, crunched corner of masonite,
the torn and taped canvas, reworked, sprayed, crayoned, scratched,
are unsure steps, hesitant movements, yet all part of the vocabulary."


EDUCATION

1972          M.A., Writing, The Johns Hopkins University
1971          B.A.,  Liberal Studies,  S.U.N.Y.  Stony Brook

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

1998          Four Painters: 93 South Gallery, Nyack, NY
1997          Group show: 93 South Gallery, Nyack NY
1996          One Person Exhibition, Pine Bush Arts Council Pine Bush, NY)
1996          One Person Exhibition, St. Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkill, NY
1995          One Person Exhibition, Zukabee Gallery, Middletown, NY
1995          Whole Soul Art Gallery, Middletown, NY (International - Best of Show Award)
1993          Alter Gallery, Sugar Loaf, NY
1990          New York University Medical Research Center, Sterling Forest, NY
1988          Group Exhibit, Trotter's Hall of Fame, Goshen, NY
1986          One Person Exhibition, Pine Bush Arts Council, Pine Bush, NY
1985          Faculty Exhibition,  Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, NY
1984          One Person Exhibition, Works On Paper, Studio 10, Tuxedo, NY
1978          Eric Sloane Day Exhibit, Sugar Loaf, NY (Best of Show Award)
1976          Orange County Arts Council, Middletown, NY
1975          One Person Exhibition, Harriman College Gallery, Harriman, NY
1969          Suffolk Gallery, Suffolk County Community College, Selden, NY    

Books:

Mayhem and Disorder, Books on line:  http://www.anovi.com/jim/mayhem.html
Chirp, Proper Gander Press, New Hampton, NY 2000
Arpville, Proper Gander Press, New Hampton, NY 1998
Tundra, Yank This Press, New Hampton, NY 1996
A Limousine To Nowhere, Street Press, Sound Beach, NY 1994
The Rented Tuxedo, Street Press, Sound Beach, NY 1976
On Good Ground, w/Ray Freed, Backstreet Editions, Port Jefferson, NY     1981
Spam, w/Ray Freed, Backstreet Editions, Port Jefferson, NY 1981
A Dozen Letters To Dan Murray In Which Michael McClure Appears,     
        Laughing Man Press, Baltimore, MD 1974

Anthologies:

The Best of Exquisite Corpse, Black Swallow Press, Los Angeles, CA 1996
In Autumn, ed/George Wallace, Birnham Wood Graphics, Northport, N.Y. 1994
The McGraw Hill Book of Poetry, ed/DiYanni and Rompf, New York, NY 1993
The Stiffest Corpse: The Best of Exquisite Corpse, ed/Andrei Codrescu, City Lights, San Francisco, CA 1990
Paumanok Rising: An Anthology of Eastern Long Island Aesthetics, ed/Clemente and Everett, Street Press, Sound Beach, NY 1981
Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry, ed/Allan F. Pater, Monitor Book Company 1980
Starting From Paumanok: 5 Long Island Poets, Despa Press, Northampton, MA 1971

Listings:

A Directory of American Poets, Poets and Writers, Inc., New York, NY 1975
Granger's Index To Poetry, ed/William F. Bernhardt, Columbia University Press 1986

Periodicals:

Prairies Schooner, Exquisite Corpse, The Village Voice, Paragraph, Paper Radio, Caprice, Paisley Moon, Alkahest, The Penguin Review, Egg, The Maverick Press, Street Magazine, Down Here, Clear Creek, Soundings, Quahaug, Images, Cedar Moon, Dove, Bird Effort, Newsday, On Target, The Falcon, Lost and Found Times, Mongrel, Zephyr, Nutmeg, Pleiades, Broadsheet Baltimore, Rain City Review, Whoreson Dog, Fragments, Rant, Poetry Motel, Hudson Valley Literary Supplement, Times Herald Record, Birmingham Poetry Review, Anathema Review, Tomorrow Magazine, The Long Island Review, Quixote Quarterly, Rhino, Hunger, and others.

Readings:

Alfred University; Columbia University (Philosophy Hall); The Tin Palace, NYC; The L.I. Potato, Westhampton, NY; Suffern Free Library; Orange County Council of the Arts; Dr. Generosity's, NYC; Islip Arts Festival; Miller Place Museum; Poets On The Vine, Palmer Vinyards, Aquebogue, NY; SUNY at Stony Brook; Western Connecticut State College; Harriman College; Cody's Books, Berkeley, CA; Suffolk County Community College; The Hobbit Hole Cafe, Port Jefferson, NY; Essex Community College, MD; Baltimore City College; Canio's Book Store, Sag Harbor, NY; The New World Home Cooking Company , Woodstock, NY; Monroe Library; Hofstra University; Pine Bush Council of the Arts; The Johns Hopkins University; The Marine Museum, Easthampton, NY; Mill Pond House, Smithtown, NY; Harrington's Cafe Americain, Port Jefferson, NY; Zukabee's Art Gallery, Middletown, NY; Ellenville Library; Out Loud: The Catskill Reading Society, Claryville, NY; Woodstock Artist's Association; Poet's Cafe, Huntington, NY, Runaway Bay Books, Sayville, NY; Mercy College; St. Thomas Aquinas College.

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