Tyler Hildebrand

Artist Tyler Hildebrand does not shy away from the harsh realities of contemporary American culture. Through a variety of mixed media including paintings, sculpture and film Hildebrand strives to represent grotesque elements of society, even if it means revealing an uncomfortable and oftentimes crude environment. By exposing the perverse, depraved and degenerate truths of the world around us, Hildebrand produces work that is often tough to look at, sometimes witty and always truthful.


The concepts and characters that exist in the work are threaded into different narratives that play out in small-scale ink on paper, large-scale mixed media and video installation works. Together these different elements interact in dysfunctional bliss. His most recent body of work specifically chronicles a delinquent and his travels, and pays tribute to the source of all his madness, the semi-fictional character Granny Whitey Hildebrand has shown his work in a number of venues including David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, Fusion Gallery, Bellevue, KY and with the Society of Illustrators, New York. 


Courtesy of David Lusk Gallery