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Tyler Farmen
"Mr. Poppins Workshop"
Farmen's work draws from diverse art forms, ranging from urban graffiti and pop culture to ceramic and natural order sculptures made from both natural and man-made objects. Most recently, he has been working with previously discarded materials found in train tunnels, dumps, woodlands, abandoned structures, and other forgotten settings.
To be forgotten or discarded is one of the most horrific feelings, said Mr. Farmen. People, places and objects are discarded everyday "even in our materialistic culture, where our possessions seem to define us. My work seeks to draw people's attention to the value of everyday objects by altering their appearance and context.
Tyler's studio evokes a world of possibilities, where new characters emerge from personal experience and a love of nature, said Gaylinn Fast, who curated the Mr. Poppins Workshop installation. He finds broken toys, old paper, drum heads, feathers, bones, buoys and other artifacts, and employs texture, color, and shadow to transform those objects into visually-alluring pieces, which often feature darkly humorous characters.
Farmen, a resident of Washington, Conn., graduated from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y., with a B.A. in industrial design. In addition to making art, he teaches art to elementary-age children at a local private school.
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