The press release for this exhibition functions a little bit differently than usual. Usually, I write from the voice of the gallery, as if the white box gives you what you need to know with a tone of clarity. For this exhibition, I would like to speak more from the heart of the person who peers at you from the back of the gallery eager for you to ask a question.

When I started Tyler Park Presents in 2020, I set out to find a space with what little money I had from fundraising by selling hats with the gallery name on them. I found a scrappy small space on Loopnet that had the look of an apartment, but the possibility of a gallery. It was modest, had a domestic charm, and surprisingly sparked the interest of many artists. After almost 4 years in the space, I decided I needed to take the next step in finding a more “gallery” looking gallery that addresses the things that gallerists toil over again and again. A search to grow, mature, and provide a space for the artists to help support their own growth. Through a short search on Loopnet, again, I found the perfect new home. High ceilings, natural light, cement floors, a gallery neighborhood, I was delighted to find that all my boxes were checked. I had made my bones.

For this inaugural exhibition at this new location, I wanted to present a work selected by each artist, the integral part of the gallery. The exhibition moves between different interests, different mediums, and different practices, leaning on visual and conceptual pinnings as one work connects to the next. While some works do have a direct relationship to the body or bones that you may be connecting to the exhibition title, others conjure different associations like architecture, systems, and histories that revert back to the title. It is a way for me to show the skeleton of the gallery, the work of the artists, as a skeleton in a body. The foot bone's connected to the leg bone, the leg bone's connected to the knee bone, the knee bone's connected to the thigh bone, if you will.

-Tyler Park