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Contact: vourosart@gmail.com
Inquiry's: RJD Gallery, 1 586 281 3613, Art@RJDGallery.com
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tylervouros/
BIOGRAPHY
Tyler Vouros crafts immersive, hyperrealist works that conjure imagined landscapes where animal presence, natural symbolism, and echoes of old master paintings converge. Rooted in a childhood spent in a log home surrounded by wilderness, his practice reflects a lifelong connection to the natural world. His drawings and paintings collapse the boundaries between observation and invention, reverence and ruin, where charcoal and oil become conduits for atmosphere, presence, and memory. Drawing from direct encounters with the landscape while embracing invention, his work creates spaces that feel both deeply familiar and difficult to place in time.
Vouros has been awarded residencies at the Leipzig International Art Programme in Germany, the Rockport Center for the Arts in Texas, the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, and MASS MoCA. In addition to his residency at Oak Spring, he has served as a juror for the foundation's residency and fellowship program. He is a recipient of a MASS MoCA grant and has completed commissioned projects for clients including Grupo Cortefiel and CHANEL.
His work has been featured in Fine Art Connoisseur, American Art Collector, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Western Art Collector, Glasstire, Manifest INDA, Artscope, and on NPR. Represented by the Richard J. Demato Gallery, Vouros has exhibited at museums including the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, the National Museum of Wildlife Art, the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, and the Bozeman Art Museum. His work has also been shown at Collier West, Flowers Gallery, Haven Gallery, Sotheby's, and international art fairs including Art Miami and Art Southampton, and is held in both private and permanent museum collections.
Vouros lives with his wife and three children in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts, where he maintains an active studio practice while serving as an Associate Professor of Art at the Community College of Rhode Island.
Vouros_List_CV.pdfArtist Statement
I grew up in a town without a stoplight, in a log home surrounded by wilderness. As a child, I often climbed trees or scaled the roof of our home, drawn to the stillness and expanded view it offered. There was a quiet clarity up there - an elevated pause above the woods, where I could see farther and breathe more freely. That feeling lingers in my work: the desire to gain perspective amid complexity, to glimpse beyond what surrounds us. It reminds me now of Bilbo’s brief escape to the treetops in Mirkwood - a momentary opening in an otherwise unrelenting forest.
My pieces craft imagined worlds where the natural intersects with memory, instinct, and myth. At the center of these landscapes are animals - primarily birds of prey - rendered in charcoal and oil. These materials allow me to create spaces that feel suspended in time, simultaneously observed and imagined.
Their presence reflects both personal reverence and broader ecological unease. Much of my reference material comes from On the Wing, a raptor rehabilitation and education center whose mission focuses on healing and public engagement. These birds become more than subjects; they are living emissaries of imbalance, endurance, and the intricate tether between human and wild.
Through my compositions, I seek to re-situate them - not as displaced or damaged, but as mythic figures returned to expansive, romanticized spaces. Here, they reclaim a sense of presence, dignity, and belonging.
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