Nashville, Tennessee
Contemporary Art Gallery237 Rep. John Lewis Way N. 37219
Tuesday—Saturday
10 a — 5 p
615.255.7816
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UPCOMING:
- Title TBD—Dan Charbonnet & Cletus Wilcox
- Atlanta Art Fair—Devin Balara, Jack Kenna, & Paloma Wall
- Title TBD—Tiffany Calvert
- NADA Miami with Sheetcake Gallery—Adam Linn, Joel Parsons, & Esther Ruiz
RECENT:
VOLLEY—whitespace group show
Caitlyn Blomstrom, Morgan Ogilvie & Ripley Whiteside
Paloma Wall & Hannah Rose Dumes
Tyler Shields
Exhibition
Solo Exhibition, Indulgent, 2022
Solo exhibition, Tyler Shields, 2019
Tyler Shields has been dubbed “Hollywood’s favorite photographer” for his work with celebrities; but more impressive than his star-studded cast are the narrative yarns he spins in every image. His photographs contain equal parts glamor and violence—simultaneously enticing and overwhelming viewers. Shields pairs signifiers of wealth, power, violence, beauty, and the grotesque to create fantasies containing the contradictions of modern life. Featured in Shields’ photographs are movie stars, models, guns, cars, high fashion brands, and a Tarantino-esque use of blood.
Shields’ work easily traverses this image-object wasteland, in which ever-shortening attention spans crave newness and shock. Shields delivers on both of these fronts with sensational images that place their subject in sensual, special-effects-fueled fantasies. His work cuts through our hyper-saturated economy of images by engaging with the most visually represented echelon of culture—celebrity—and blowing-up (sometimes literally) the traditional image making process. His oeuvre reads as an examination of the nature of photographic representation. Shields lives and works in LA. His photographs have been exhibited internationally.
