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Ty Rex presents Movement, their debut solo art exhibition celebrating a decade of physical and spiritual recovery. A visual companion to their second piano album, the show features 100+ original works as a chronology of healing through photography, drawing, painting, digital/generative art, and kinetic sculptures, soundtracked by Ty Rex's recording archives.

Free Reception: Tues, Dec 10 @ 7pm (Add to Calendar)‘Open House’ Concert & Soundbath: Wed, Dec 11 (highly recommended - RSVP required)
Movement is on view December 11-12, 2024.
2270 Venice Blvd
Los Angeles, CA, 90006
11am-7pm

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PERFORMANCE DETAILS

Ty Rex & Friends celebrate the first anniversary of Open House, a communal concert series guided by improvisation as a meditative practice. Guests are invited to come and go between 6-10pm with their rest, meditation or movement practice for a mid-week rest & reset in a devotional atmosphere.

Featuring rotating collaborations between Ty Rex (piano), Daniel Weidlein (woodwinds), Angel Lin (percussion), Tristan de Leige (synths), Patrick Behnke (strings), and additional contributions from Brenton Zola (storyteller), Axel Mansour (songwriter), and movement and sound healing artists.

ARTIST STATEMENT

In 2020, I released eight piano improvisations, Rumors of War, a reclamation of self after a 25-year upbringing in a religious cult to which I lost my family and community. From those years came a series of initiations toward a private, personal spirituality cultivated through improvisation, a lifelong practice which evolved to writing and gestural art. The album artwork - a circle juxtaposed with a square – began a visual expression of long-held relationship with non-duality guided by physics and relativity. These were teachers and rational medicines for my inherited patterns, neurodivergence and addiction to black and white certainty.

In 2021, my health collapsed from the years of survival and illness, and I surrendered to a life of full-time recovery. From this Fall came the work you now see. The drawings were early hand-movement practices; the photographs, portals to healing worlds; the hanging sculptures, a computation of balance and non-dualist application; the procedural art, re-interpretive studies of myself. The first to be shown was Movement, Demos from Rigidity & Recovery – a sparse collection of piano improvisations from this time. Altogether, a journal of recovery.

My intent is to show my chronology of healing, expression, and inner strength, as well as artistic development – an evolution from survivorship to vitality, beauty and being. As I piece together my story, I hope you catch a glimpse of your own. I hope that whatever you fear as dark becomes brighter, more curious, more wondrous. I hope you find within yourself a deep and unshakable home.

First the fall
then the recovery from the fall
both are the grace of God
Julian of Norwich

- trx