Everything Becomes Something

Artist Statement

Tyler Joseph Krasowski is a virtuosic and accomplished draughtsman. While he is equally adept at printmaking, his preferred tools are pencil and paper. The exhibition reflects the artist’s excitement and delight with the immediacy of drawing, featuring a variety of approaches and subjects. Drawing is often used as a preparatory tool, but for Krasowski drawings and sketches are valued artworks unto themselves. Krasowski states, “the energy of the original cannot be replicated therefore I believe these to be the most honest ways of my expression.” Throughout his work, Krasowski references idyllic and pastoral landscape traditions.  He admires the old masters, especially printmakers such as Dürer, whose images are dense, detailed, and elicit a pleasure through the act of looking. Krasowski likes to subvert expectations and often includes small hidden details that upend the viewer’s initial reading of the scene.

His artist statement says, “Tyler is an artist with a medieval compulsion for precision. He modestly passes his days meditatively engrossed, gouging away, much like 15th century knuckle draggers in Antwerp. Some days he doesn’t even feel the need to put shoes on. He takes his time and produces relief prints and drawings depicted sharply retaining hypnotic vibration. When not creating images, his so-called purpose is to locate obsolete neighborhood abstractions, or antiquated rural myths. He also takes cartoon clouds very seriously.”

Born in Minneapolis, Krasowski grew up in the Chicago area. He went to art school at the University of Montana and earned a BFA in Drawing in 2009. After graduating, Krasowski traveled the country with Drive By Press, received a commission to create a design for Pearl Jam’s world tour, and was hired by renowned printmaker Tony Fitzpatrick to be his studio assistant. He has been a resident at MATRIX Press in 2012 and 2014, designed textiles with Western Sensibility, and exhibited at Spring Break Art Fair in Los Angeles (2022, 2023, and 2024). You can find his work on Instagram at skinpancake. https://www.instagram.com/skinpancake/