Tyler Beard & Amelia Carley
Tyler Beard (b. 1982, Olathe, KS) received an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a BFA from the University of Kansas. He has had solo shows at Deanna Evans Projects, NY; Atlanta Contemporary, GA; the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, CO; Central Utah Arts Center, UT; Robischon Gallery, CO. Additionally, He has been featured in group exhibitions at ROCKELMANN&, Berlin; Victori + Mo, NY; Coop Gallery, TN; Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, CO; and the Biennial of the Americas, CO. He has participated in numerous artist residencies including the Montello Foundation, NV; Anderson Ranch Arts Center, CO; Ceramic Center Berlin, GER; Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, MN; and OffShore, NY. Beard currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Amelia Carley is an artist making work concerning the interpretation of memories within the landscape and fictitious sites. Born and raised in Colorado, Carley received a BFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an MFA at the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University. Carley has exhibited at such venues as SOMArts (San Francisco, CA), Savannah College of Art and Design (Savannah, GA), Oregon Southern University (Ashland, OR), Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (Salt Lake City, UT), Hathaway Gallery (Atlanta, GA), Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (Boulder, CO), Hyperlink Gallery (Chicago, IL), Curfman Gallery at Colorado State University (Fort Collins, CO), Day & Night Projects (Atlanta, GA), Galleries of Contemporary Art at University of Colorado (Colorado Springs, CO), Colorado Photographic Arts Center (Denver, CO), Glass Gallery at University of Georgia (Athens, GA), and SOUP Experimental (Tallahassee, FL). She has participated in several artist-in-residence programs including Atlantic Center for the Arts and Vermont Studio Center. In 2017, Carley received an Artist Project Grant through the Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs. Carley currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York where she is a Visiting Faculty at Pratt Institute.
Beard and Carley are collaborating for their work in The Space(s) Between. Seen at left and below are images of their functional work on view on the Sculpture Walk at Colorado Springs, Here Through There, 2021, digital painting on vinyl, plexiglass, and wood.
