Tyler Sorgman

Tyler Sorgman is interested in building meaning through the intersection of abstraction, landscape, and natural forms. Sorgman’s recent work includes otherworldly imagery of plant growth, celestial bodies, storms, and forest fires.There has been a...

Tyler Sorgman is interested in building meaning through the intersection of abstraction, landscape, and natural forms. Sorgman’s recent work includes otherworldly imagery of plant growth, celestial bodies, storms, and forest fires.There has been an innate human desire to personify, and prescribe meaning to nature for millenia. Sorgman is drawing on this history in order to explore themes that feel both personal and universal simultaneously. A solitary home is often set into the imagined worlds Sorgman creates. It is unclear whether these homes and their inhabitants are intentionally secluded, or existing in isolation. Sometimes they even appear trapped in a crater, surrounded by rings of fire, or sending up smoke signals. Sorgman’s accumulation of flat forms and playful color palettes often cause these worlds to read as deceptively sweet at first glance, despite the destruction taking place within them. Natural phenomena are not simply positive or negative either. Wildfires destroy, but also creates space for new growth. Sorgman is interested in exploring this duality.