In the Fabrefaction Gallery
(July 9-August 21, 2016)

Tyler James Hoare

Join us for an Artist Talk with Tyler on Sunday, August 14th at 4pm sharp.  Snacks and libations will be served 3-6pm.  The talk is free and open to the public.

The Compound Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition featuring the work of the esteemed Emeryville mudflat artist, Tyler James Hoare. A collection of masks, sculptures, and historical documentation will be exhibited in our more intimate Fabrefaction Gallery located at 1145 65th st. Oakland, CA.  This show is in conjunction with our show Laserbeam Technomania in our Main Gallery next door.  Gallery Hours will be Wed-Sun 12-7pm (please go to our Main Gallery at 1167 for entry).

Missouri-born Hoare has been placing sculptures along the Emeryville and Berkeley shoreline for more than half his life. He moved to Berkeley in the 1960s, and was driving past the remains of a pier in 1975 when his artistic muse struck. –SFGate.com

b. 1940. Sculptor and printmaker, Born in Joplin Mo. attended the University of Colorado, the Sculpture Center in New York, the University of Kansas (BFA 1963), and CCAC.  He assembled figures in often humorous combinations of found and tooled objects, primarily of wood, coupling a basically cubist style with overtones of Surrealism.  Some of Hoare’s pieces occupied the anonymous, grassroots sculpture garden that began to flourish in the mid-1960’s on the mudflats of Emeryville.  In the 1970’s he was one of the earliest Bay Area artists to experiment with color xerox as a medium for printmaking.  -From Art in The San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980 by Thomas Albright.