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."
EDUCATION1972 M.A., Writing, The Johns Hopkins University
1971 B.A., Liberal Studies, S.U.N.Y. Stony BrookSELECTED 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 |
| Anthologies:
The Best of Exquisite Corpse, Black Swallow Press, Los Angeles,
CA 1996 |
| Listings:
A Directory
of American Poets, Poets and Writers, Inc., New York, NY 1975 |
| 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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