About
Tyler Holley-Bergin (b.1996) is figurative expressionist embellishing urban agricultural elements into his artwork through experiences of homelessness and cultural identity. Without any formal training he began sketching in pencil and mainly pen dating as far back as 2015 just a few months after his high school graduation. He has never undergone a study of any kind in college. Tyler is also multifaceted in music, film, and many other forms of art with free self-created downloadable songs as well as short YouTube films he also created on his own. As a young adult Tyler grew up without a very supportive environment. Before, a child of an unappreciative household and school Tyler developed from a discovery of interest as well as appreciation not only for himself but for anyone that could also be out there far from the barriers that confine an individual. Working towards the future Tyler aims to find more to share through figurative ingredients of expressionism.
Artist Statement
As images of a newly found experience begin to emerge not through words held in a conversation but through mere thought mentally simulating perspective from observation in figuratively abstract forms. In the mask of foreseeable fate, a youthful artist Tyler emerges in an emergency traveling to past faces of identical structure when mirroring alienating spaces. The rush of vivid excitement of even the faintest color repurposes its notion of color only to be refined as detail and familiarity itself.
An oasis of a resource, his work is a place of strange beauty on his walk of travels though miles of stories emulating the scarcity of an environment's affection for all of its inhabitants. There is also a message conveying likelihood in meaning positive outcome of fulfillment when identifying one's own identity themselves after finding what's hidden. In this world of Tyler’s, we find the deepest engraved function of stillness and of tiredness: revealing, deceiving, and of moment full movement.
