Kelsey Tynik, "You go first"
6” x 6”, Paper Collage, 2022.
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BIO
Tynik is an interdisciplinary sculptor who has exhibited in New York, Connecticut, Arkansas, Texas, and California. She most recently exhibited at Collar Works (NY), Hesse Flatow (NY), Ely Center of Contemporary Art (CT), and JEFF (TX). She has been an artist-in-residence at Mass MoCA, Arts, Letters, and Numbers, ChaNorth, and will attend Vermont Studio Centers this December. Her work has been featured in Hyperallergic, Artforum, create! Magazine, The Coastal Post, and I Like Your Work.
STATEMENT
Kelsey Tynik is an interdisciplinary sculptor working in Storrs, CT. She believes that as children, we are encouraged to play, explore, and fail. As adults that encouragement declines. Instead, we are encouraged to keep busy, interact less, and cast off our fantasy worlds. Her work investigates glee and sentimentality realized through material, technique, and play. The work allows the adolescent in us to thrive. It provides fantasy without shame or guilt, and allows us to engage with the present. The exchange between the viewer and the work removes the adult preoccupation with the daily grind and provides a space for make-believe. Her work offers a chance for repressed play to overflow and, in turn, gives the opportunity for unification of humanity through experience.
6” x 6”, Paper Collage, 2022.
SHIPPING IS NOT INCLUDED. PLEASE CONTACT INFO@COLLARWORKS.ORG FOR A SHIPPING ESTIMATE.
BIO
Tynik is an interdisciplinary sculptor who has exhibited in New York, Connecticut, Arkansas, Texas, and California. She most recently exhibited at Collar Works (NY), Hesse Flatow (NY), Ely Center of Contemporary Art (CT), and JEFF (TX). She has been an artist-in-residence at Mass MoCA, Arts, Letters, and Numbers, ChaNorth, and will attend Vermont Studio Centers this December. Her work has been featured in Hyperallergic, Artforum, create! Magazine, The Coastal Post, and I Like Your Work.
STATEMENT
Kelsey Tynik is an interdisciplinary sculptor working in Storrs, CT. She believes that as children, we are encouraged to play, explore, and fail. As adults that encouragement declines. Instead, we are encouraged to keep busy, interact less, and cast off our fantasy worlds. Her work investigates glee and sentimentality realized through material, technique, and play. The work allows the adolescent in us to thrive. It provides fantasy without shame or guilt, and allows us to engage with the present. The exchange between the viewer and the work removes the adult preoccupation with the daily grind and provides a space for make-believe. Her work offers a chance for repressed play to overflow and, in turn, gives the opportunity for unification of humanity through experience.
6” x 6”, Paper Collage, 2022.
SHIPPING IS NOT INCLUDED. PLEASE CONTACT INFO@COLLARWORKS.ORG FOR A SHIPPING ESTIMATE.
BIO
Tynik is an interdisciplinary sculptor who has exhibited in New York, Connecticut, Arkansas, Texas, and California. She most recently exhibited at Collar Works (NY), Hesse Flatow (NY), Ely Center of Contemporary Art (CT), and JEFF (TX). She has been an artist-in-residence at Mass MoCA, Arts, Letters, and Numbers, ChaNorth, and will attend Vermont Studio Centers this December. Her work has been featured in Hyperallergic, Artforum, create! Magazine, The Coastal Post, and I Like Your Work.
STATEMENT
Kelsey Tynik is an interdisciplinary sculptor working in Storrs, CT. She believes that as children, we are encouraged to play, explore, and fail. As adults that encouragement declines. Instead, we are encouraged to keep busy, interact less, and cast off our fantasy worlds. Her work investigates glee and sentimentality realized through material, technique, and play. The work allows the adolescent in us to thrive. It provides fantasy without shame or guilt, and allows us to engage with the present. The exchange between the viewer and the work removes the adult preoccupation with the daily grind and provides a space for make-believe. Her work offers a chance for repressed play to overflow and, in turn, gives the opportunity for unification of humanity through experience.