Statement:

Tyler Park Presents is pleased to announce Within a Realm, a group exhibition featuring the work of Abdolreza Aminlari, John Birtle, Andrea Chung, Lauren Fejarang, Lisa Diane Wedgeworth, and Evan Whale. The exhibition will be on view from Sunday, December 11, 2022 through Saturday, January 14, 2023.

Through various mediums and artists of varied practices, Within A Realm leans on the thought of a realm as a spectrum that is wide-spanning and encompassing. The spectrum of materials and color in the exhibition moves from soft to hard from light to dark, with rootings in abstraction that move towards representational. Like a spectrum, the work relationships change from work to work with small overlaps. From a curve to a hard angle, repetition to a gesture, form to a body, a gradient of color to a pool of color, from one side to the other.///

Abdolreza Aminlari (b. 1979, Tehran) is a Brooklyn based artist. He received his BFA from the College for Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan. His work has been nationally and Internationally exhibited, including at the Derfner Judaica Museum, New York; KVKM Kunstverein Cologne; Quadro Gallery, Dubai; Jackie Klempay Gallery, Brooklyn; Andrew Rafacz, (Chicago), and Taymour Grahne, New York. He was awarded the SIM Residency in Reykjavik, Iceland, in 2012. Aminlari's work has been mentioned in the New York Times and reviewed by the Wall Street Journal.

John Birtle (b. 1988 in Long Beach, CA) is a Los Angeles-based artist who holds an MFA from the University of California, Riverside and a BFA from California Institute of the Arts. They have held solo exhibitions at Salon Silicon, Mexico City; Visitor Welcome Center, Los Angeles; Clifton Benevento, New York; and the Armory Art Center, Passadena. Their work has been included in exhibitions at venues such as Kurimanzuto, Mexico City; Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles; the Benton Museum at Pomona College; and Jack’s Flat, Berlin; among others. A long time supporter of artist-run spaces, John has hosted exhibitions in a 2” by 4” tattooed rectangle on their left forearm since 2007, and is the managing director of Human Resources Los Angeles. They most recently published an artist book with Kima Press titled “Butterfly Impressions.”

Andrea Chung (b. 1978, Newark, NJ) lives and works in San Diego, California. She received a BFA from Parsons School of Design, New York, and a MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore. Her work has been included in biennale and museum exhibitions including the Addison Museum of American Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, Art Gallery of Ontario, Prospect 4, New Orleans, the Jamaican Biennale, Kingston, Jamaica, as well as the Chinese American Museum and California African American Museum in Los Angeles, and the San Diego Art Institute. In 2017, her first solo museum exhibition took place at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, You broke the ocean in half to be here which then later traveled to the Manetti Shrem Museum. She has participated in national and international residencies including the Vermont Studio Center, McColl Center for Visual Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been written about in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, Hyperallergic, Artsy, Boston Globe, and the International Review of African-American Art among others. Her work is included in collections such as the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Cleveland Clinic Art & Medicine Institute, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Davis Museum at Wesley College, Addison Museum of American Art, Smith College Museum of Art, and the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Lauren Fejarang (b. 1987, Los Angeles) is a Los Angeles-based artist who holds an MFA from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, and a BA in interdisciplinary visual art from the University of Washington, Seattle, and attended The School of Art Institute of Chicago for post-graduate studies. Her work has been shown in exhibitions at venues such as Seasons LA in Los Angeles, Hesse Flatow in New York, The Coningsby Gallery in London, and Coherent in Brussels. Along with her art practice, she is also a curator and member of Below Grand in the Lower East Side in New York.

Lisa Diane Wedgeworth is an interdisciplinary artist whose large-scale abstract paintings are informed by memory and employ energetic mark-making to interpret psychological and emotional energies. She has been invited to exhibit her work in Los Angeles, North Carolina, Scotland, and Paris; and to perform at Williams College and Northwestern University. She is a recipient of the 2020 COLA Individual Artist Fellowship and has lectured about her work at NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness, Franklin County, OH), OTIS, California State University Los Angeles, and Chapman University. Most recently, she taught Advanced Drawing and Painting at UCLA, and holds part-time teaching positions at Los Angeles City College and Glendale Community College. A cultural producer, Wedgeworth exhibited emerging artists in her studio-based project space PS 2920 between 2015 - 2016 and produces the public platform, Conversations About Abstraction to share the voices of abstract artists historically excluded from the Western canon.

Evan Whale (b. 1987) was born in Washington, D.C, and lives and works in Los Angeles. Whale holds an MFA from the Yale School of Art (2014) and a BA from Bard College (2009). He has exhibited in group shows throughout the United States at Regen Projects (LA), The Flag Arts Foundation (NY), and Jeff Bailey Gallery (NY), and internationally at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, in both the Paris Pantin and the Salzburg Villa Kast locations, and had a recent booth at Future Fair (NY) with Tyler Park Presents in 2021. Recent solo exhibitions include In My Room in 2020, Soft Stories at Tyler Park Presents in 2022, Come and See at Actual Size (LA), in 2017, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, at 321 Gallery (NY) in 2016, which was also reviewed in The New Yorker magazine. His work was recently on view in Curious Visions: Toward Abstract Photography at the Denver Art Museum.