Configurations

Since the start of 2020, Phil Tyler has embarked on a new body of paintings collectively entitled the Configurations series. These recent paintings have their roots in his abstract paintings from the 1980s, where he was concerned with gestural abstraction and the formal interplay between positive marks and negative space. These new painting explore he tentative and often fragile intimate relationships of the home through Baroque tableaus, as domestic objects act out some silent dramas.