Tynan Kerr
Tynan Kerr (b.1985, Minneapolis, MN) is an artist based in Los Angeles, CA. He received a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He also exhibits under the name AMTK in collaboration with Andrew Mazorol. His work has been featured in New American Paintings, Art Forum, publications by McSweeney’s, Milkweed Editions, and The University of California Press among others. Grants received include the Jerome Foundation Emerging Artist Fellowship. His work explores subconscious influences on perception, the intersection of visible and invisible worlds, and modes of energetic transmission and transformation. His work draws on images and information gleaned through dreams, plein-air observation, and banks of individual and collective memory. Labyrinths, loops of repetitive pattern, wobbling landscapes and figures associated with personal and archetypal meaning are represented through eclectic painting approaches, along with assemblies of carved wood and ceramics with occasional kinetic elements. He works with oil paints along with more indirect processes involving materials like beeswax, tree resins, egg yolks, dyes and pigments which leave space for chance and a nonlinear progression of associative meaning within and between the works.
Exhibitions at HAIR+NAILS:
Solo shows:
AMTK Shadowlands 11.13.2021 – 12.26.2021
AMTK NADA NYC 2022
Tynan Kerr Numbers Pushers 9.21.18-10.20.18
Group shows:
Freshly For You. H+N NYC inaugural group show
NADA NYC 2024: Emma Beatrez + Tynan Kerr
Felix LA 2024
The Human Scale// Rochester Art Center // 7.9.2021 – 11.24.2021
RIGHT NOW // Winter Group Show // 12.1.2020 – January 2021
FUTUREFUTURE // 2020 Group Show // 1.18.20 – 2.23.20
