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Tyler Kline – from skateboarding to art with viscera, a new podcast
June 27, 2011 · 0 Comments
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Tyler Kline grew up in the small town of Stone Mountain, GA, a once-magical place with lakes and a pine forest and flowering magnolias and weeping willows. Tyler felt the heavy hand of history in the south growing up, and he also felt the terror of the Atlanta child murderer in the neighborhood. The artist, who grew up skateboarding and hiking the woods, graduated this Spring with an MFA from PAFA. His work has been shown locally at Little Berlin, where he is a member, at Rebekah Templeton and Vox Populi, and before that, at the skateboard shop, Minnow. He has made installations using sheets of aluminum foil and string; and objects out of aluminum foil that look like human or imagined demons. His MFA show featured small globby-looking mountains of painted cast bronze with what appear to be dentures half hidden in them. He doesn’t shy away from “ugh” factor materials like fingernail clippings, hair and teeth, and by the way, his father was a dentist. Below is a short sample clip from our interview, and below that, the full 14 minute 39 second podcast.
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This episode is edited by Peter Crimmins. The music is by Eric Biondo. Thanks to the Knight Foundation for helping us get the ball rolling on this project. Thanks to J-Lab‘s Enterprise Reporting Fund and William Penn Foundation for additional support and to our partner WHYY NewsWorks for their ongoing support and for sharing artblog radio episodes on the arts & culture page of their community news site NewsWorks.org. You can subscribe to artblog radio on iTunes.
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