Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008 Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
2007 Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
2006 GBR Foundation, Manila, Philippines
1998 Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1998 Simon Patrich Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
1996 Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1995 Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1995 City of Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, British Columbia
1994 Doheny Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
1993 Alexander Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008 Sopa Fine Arts, Kelowna, British Columbia
Axis Contemporary Art, Calgary, Alberta
Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
2007 Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
2007 "Tribute to Rotonde," Gallery Gabrichidze, Brussels, Belgium
2005 University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
2004 “Group Painting”, Don O’Melveny Gallery, West Hollywood, California
2003 “Abstracte Elegant”, Don O’Melveny Gallery, West Hollywood, California
“Group Painting”, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, Washington
2002 “The Night Eclectic”, Don O’Melveny Gallery, West Hollywood, California
2001 Simon Patrich Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
2000 Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1998 “La Galerie du Projet”, Geneva, Switzerland
1997 Hong Kong Bank of Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia
1995 “Space, Time, Spirit”, Fran Willis Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia
1994 Galerie Woltzen, Edmonton, Alberta
Shepard Gallery, Whistler, British Columbia
1989 “Images and Objects”, B.C. Festival of the Arts, Chilliwack, British Columbia
“Awards Show”, Arts Council Gallery, New Westminster, British Columbia
1984 “Richmond Interpretations”, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, British Columbia
“Me”, Pitt Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia

Collections

GBR Foundation, Manila, Philippines
City of Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, British Columbia
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
Burnaby Public Library, Burnaby, British Columbia
YMCA Language School, Vancouver, British Columbia
Pacific Language Institute, Vancouver, B.C. and Toronto, Ontario
Stikeman Elliott Lawyers, Vancouver, British Columbia

in addition to numerous private collections in Canada, the U.S.A., Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Philippines and the U.K.

Teaching

“The Role of the Artist”, Mensa Conference, Richmond B.C., November 2002
“Reading the Land”, Meadowlark Festival, Pentiction B.C., May 2002
“Roads to Abstraction”, City of Richmond Art Gallery, February, 1995
Art instructor, Vancouver School Board, Vancouver B.C., 1990 – 1991
Art instructor, Dorset College, Vancouver B.C., 1988 – 1990

Education

Graduate, University of British Columbia, B.Ed. in Fine Arts Education, 1983.
Studied painting under Gordon Smith.

Biography

David Tycho was born in Vancouver B.C. in 1959. He attended UBC from 1977 to 1983, where he studied painting under Gordon Smith. After working through a number of Modernist styles, he arrived at his personal interpretation of figurative expressionism, which remained his focus until moving to Asia in 1984.

In Kyoto, David was exposed to Shodo, a Japanese style of calligraphic painting. He was particularly intrigued by the paintings of Zen monks, whose fluid, gestural brushwork often renders the characters illegible, and ultimately abstract. At the same time, he was also inspired by the paintings of Robert Motherwell, and David soon began to explore abstraction for himself.

In 1990, David began working through a number of abstract styles: from gestural, painterly expressionism, to hard-edged minimalism.

Since 1995, David has made numerous sojourns into wilderness areas, from the austere deserts of Nevada to the coastal rainforests of British Columbia. Forms and colours of the natural environment have found their way onto his palette, and, in combination with intuitive aesthetic impulses, the resulting works are a synthesis of landscape painting and total abstraction.

In addition to painting, David is an often-published writer of articles on art and wilderness travel, and winner of the 2001 Canadian Literary Award for a personal essay on The Great Basin Desert. He has also written seven feature length screenplays, two novels, and numerous short stories.

David now divides his time between painting, writing, teaching, cycling and hiking. He currently lives in Vancouver with his wife Chiyoko and son Sean.