Wednesday, July 30
12-1pm | Green Room
Free with Pay-What-You-Wish Admission
Join BOMBOTZ artist, Tyler K. Smith for a special gallery talk and reception in celebration of the featured exhibition Tyler K. Smith: BOMBOTZ. Learn about the artist’s imaginative BOMBOTZ universe, a place where science fiction-inspired machines and fantastical creatures reign supreme. With robotic bodies bursting open to reveal organic internal organs, the inhabitants of Smith’s universe are both mechanical and natural, toeing the line between nature and the machine. Smith draws inspiration from the pop culture of the 1960s, particularly the cartoons, trading cards, and comic books he enjoyed as a child. Discover how Smith’s world of strange and peculiar sentient machines combines what is often viewed as lowbrow forms of entertainment with the fine art processes of painting, drawing, and sculpture.
About the Artist:
Tyler K. Smith is a sculptor, illustrator, set designer, and educator. After receiving his BFA from Syracuse University, his MFA from Indiana University, and attending Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture on a Ford Foundation grant, he taught sculpture in Cortona, Italy, with the University of Georgia Study Abroad Program. Upon moving to Hoboken, New Jersey, Smith received a fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. While showing at 55 Mercer Street Gallery in New York, he began a freelance career in theater and film as an illustrator, art director, set designer, and special effects artist. His teaching, lecturing, and exhibition credits include Rhode Island School of Design, Miami International University, Nova Southwestern University, Broward College, and Corning Community College. Smith currently works from his studio in Elmira, New York.
BEEBOTZ SWARM, 2018
Acrylic on luan, 48 x 30 inches
DICBOTZ PULLS, 2020
Painted polyclay, 11 x 12 x 5 inches
The Everson is supported by the Dorothy and Marshall M. Reisman Foundation; the General Operating Support program, a regrant program of the County of Onondaga with the support of County Executive, J. Ryan McMahon II, and the Onondaga County Legislature, administered by CNY Arts; and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
