November 2010
4 posts
Artist Statement, Tyler Mackie 2010
I like taking pretty to a level of beautiful disturbance. Pretty entices through its loud, bedazzled and laced adornment, beckoning the viewer to approach. In mass quantities, prettyoverwhelms, but it can also quietly seduce.
My work performs this seduction through appeals to nostalgia, play and the body. By way of traditional handicraft I create myriad scenes of girlhood and womanhood,...