Tyrus's Eye on Art

Musings on Contemporary Art and Artists: For the average person the contemporary art world seems to speak in a foreign language. I have found over the past decade that many people have an interest in art but feel like outsiders to a very insulated conversation. The purpose of this blog site is two-fold. First, it includes thoughts, observations, and analysis of contemporary artists and their works. The second type of blog entry is based on my own artwork.

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Provenance

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During the year between my undergraduate work and my enrollment in a graduate MFA program I worked at a bookstore. That wa...

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Let me show you my etchings...

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I often work on the carving of my relief prints in public places. If I have a particularly intricate linoleum or woodcut design ...

Friday, June 21, 2013

Glossing Over It: The Process of Glazing

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When I first began to seriously work on painting, as an undergraduate art major, I preferred a thicker, more opaque application of pa...

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

The Story of Asher Lev

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I recently reread two books by the author Chaim Potok. Many people are familiar with his writing through the book The Chosen . Th...

Sunday, July 15, 2012

The Eyes Have It

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Sometimes art makes us uncomfortable, or rather it should make us uncomfortable. I recognize that this flies in the face of popular co...

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Blasphemy: Art That Offends

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I have occasionally heard people state that the older one gets the more each person tends to be like him or herself. In other words, our n...

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Pipe Down!

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Each individual artist works at his or her unique pace. I have some artist friends who are so prolific that I still cannot comprehend ...

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

The Gardner Heist

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Prior to living outside of Boston I knew very little about the city and its rich history. Certainly, there were the vague generalities g...

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Creation through Destruction

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There is something quite intriguing to me about the processes of our creative endeavors. While viewers of artwork are immediately t...

Monday, March 12, 2012

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

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After a significant absence, I have returned to the blogosphere. Thank you to those who have been followers of this blog and who have voice...

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Musings on Contemporary Art & Artists: Tyrus Clutter is a painter and printmaker who was born and grew up in Michigan. He holds a BA in Art from Spring Arbor University and an MFA in Painting from Bowling Green State University. His work has been exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions throughout North America and in Europe. Clutter’s work can be found in several hundred private collections as well as in the Print Collection of the New York Public Library, and the collections of the Museum of Biblical Art, the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas, Spring Arbor University, Calvin College and Union University. Tyrus has taught art and art history at colleges and universities since 1995. He also served as the Director of the international art non-profit CIVA from 2003-2008. From 1999-2001 Clutter was art critic for the Boise Weekly newspaper in Boise, Idaho. He continues to produce art, teach, and speak on topics of art, art history, and aesthetics around the country.

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