Tyler Toews

The paintings of Tyler Toews feature bold compositions blocked out in bright colors often utilizing loosely representational elements. The work incorporates the aesthetics of street art, from areas of paint drips to the artist's signature scrawled in the thick paint like a graffiti tag in the bottom corner of a canvas. In some works, abstract elements merge into faces sporting crudely painted jagged teeth and geometric facial features. In others, Towes covers much of the canvas in swaths of color applied in sweeping brush strokes, creating a unique vocabulary that combines abstract expressionism and gestural painting styles.​

Submitted by Monica Reyes