After completing his BFA degree, Tyler continued his education as a graduate student in the MFA program at Brigham
Young University. There he was privileged to work with and learn from a unique faculty including sculptors Brian
Christensen and Bryon Draper, ceramist Von Allen, and printmaker Gary Barton. His contemporaries included sculptors
Pam Bowman, Jason Lanegan, Andy Kosorok, Jared Ellis, Spencer Babcock, and Andrew Turley, as well as ceramists
Melanie McGee, Gary Hall, Heysook Cho, painters David Gianfredi and Jeannie Richardson, and printmaker/sculptor
Colin Nesbit. Through close interaction with these artists, Tyler continued to develop skills both in fabrication and
assemblage, as well as critical thinking and verbal communication.
During his graduate studies Tyler was also accepted to and participated in a summer session at Pilchuck Glass school in
Stanwood, Washington. There he studied under glass artists Melanie Rowe, Leslie Rowe-Israelson, and Patty Gray who
introduced him to mold making and kiln casting techniques. It was at Pilchuck that Tyler got his first taste of hot casting, a
process whose immediacy and honesty offered the artist a stark contrast to the time-consuming process of steel
fabrication to which he was accustomed.
Tyler completed his graduate work in 2006 with an exhibition of steel and glass monoliths entitled Accumulations, a series
which he continues to explore. The artist currently works out of a studio in Utah's Geneva Steel district and continues to
exhibit both locally and regionally. His work has been included in the North American Sculpture Exhibition in Golden,
Colorado and will be shown as part of the upcoming 25th anniversary of the Loveland High Plains Art Council's Sculpture
in the Park in Loveland, Colorado. Tyler's work is on public display adjacent to the new Covey Center for the Arts in
downtown Provo, Utah and on the sculpture grounds at the Central Utah Arts Center in Ephraim, Utah. His work is also
found in private collections across the United States.
Tyler Meadows Davis
about the artist
about the artist
Tyler Meadows Davis was born in Utah's Salt Lake valley in 1974. He spent
his childhood exploring the foothills of the Wasatch mountains near the family
home, as well as hunting, fishing, and camping throughout the western United
States. Spending time with family and simply observing the natural world were
his favorite ways to pass the time as a boy, both pursuits that continue to
provide the artist a sense of spiritual context within which he lives and creates.
In 1999, following a period of travel and deep introspection, Tyler enrolled in
the school of fine arts at the University of Utah where he was accepted into
the BFA program. At the University, Tyler was able to study under sculptors
Clay Furches, Katie Slater, David Eddy, Paul Stout, and painter Sam Wilson.
Davis also had the opportunity to study the work of many influential sculptors
of the modern and post-modern eras under the personal direction of Art
Historian Dr. Robert Olpin. Perhaps more importantly, it was while attending
the University that, through his mother and father, Tyler was introduced to
Wisconsin sculptor Paul Yank and his daughter, New Mexico sculptor Karen
Yank. Meeting these artists served as catalyst both in Tyler's decision to
pursue his own career as a sculptor, as well as his selection of steel as his
primary medium.
his childhood exploring the foothills of the Wasatch mountains near the family
home, as well as hunting, fishing, and camping throughout the western United
States. Spending time with family and simply observing the natural world were
his favorite ways to pass the time as a boy, both pursuits that continue to
provide the artist a sense of spiritual context within which he lives and creates.
In 1999, following a period of travel and deep introspection, Tyler enrolled in
the school of fine arts at the University of Utah where he was accepted into
the BFA program. At the University, Tyler was able to study under sculptors
Clay Furches, Katie Slater, David Eddy, Paul Stout, and painter Sam Wilson.
Davis also had the opportunity to study the work of many influential sculptors
of the modern and post-modern eras under the personal direction of Art
Historian Dr. Robert Olpin. Perhaps more importantly, it was while attending
the University that, through his mother and father, Tyler was introduced to
Wisconsin sculptor Paul Yank and his daughter, New Mexico sculptor Karen
Yank. Meeting these artists served as catalyst both in Tyler's decision to
pursue his own career as a sculptor, as well as his selection of steel as his
primary medium.
