Tyler Krasowski
2012

I once heard Tyler Krasowskisay: ‘To be a great printmaker, you first have to know how to draw. Then you have to learn how to carve. Then you have to know how to print it’. Krasowski’s work lies somewhere between the notebook sketches and a daydream. Whether it be an eyeball taking a boat ride he did for a Pearl Jam design, or a meat-grinding shark being bombed by fighter planes, he is going to take you on a hallucinogenic ride through the clouds. Just make sure you watch out for those giant flying snakes.

-Travis Lawrence  in New Art.

I hail from the Greater Chicago land area, and later received a BFA degree in Drawing at The University of Montana, MIssoula in 2009. I currently reside in Chicago. Relief Printmaking has become my balance and focus along with skateboarding and drumming. I owe my cutting chops to traditional master guild engravers of Bruegel the Elder, and the relief work of Durer. Much of my inspiration comes from watching cloud traffic.

Tyler currently works as an assistant to Chicago based artist Tony Fitzpatrick.

Prior to that he was associated with Drive By Press, where he travelled the country spreading the ink.

Tyler @ MATRIX Press