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Tyree Guyton is an American urban environment artist, outsider artist, painter, and mixed media installation artist. He transforms his devastated Detroit neighborhood into a living art gallery with found objects, such as shoes, bikes, toilets, and dolls. He also creates gallery projects that highlight his religious worldview and social messages.
- American
- August 24, 1955
- Detroit, Michigan
Detroit based artist. About; Philosophy; Work. Studio; Installation; Commissioned
Tyree Guyton is an American Neo-Expressionist artist who is a proponent of Graffiti art and Urban Environmental art. He has waged a personal war on urban blight on Detroit's East Side, transforming his childhood neighborhood into a living indoor/outdoor art museum.
The artist gained international acclaim making sculptures out of the wreckage in his neighborhood. Now he must effectively destroy his work in order to save it. Tyree Guyton, artist and...
Tyree Guyton (born August 24, 1955) is an artist from Detroit, Michigan. [1] He is married to Jenenne Whitfield [2] and continues to live in Detroit. Before becoming an artist, Guyton worked as a firefighter and an autoworker and served in the U.S. Army.
- Jenenne Whitfield
- August 24, 1955 (age 68), Detroit, MI
Primarily a painter and sculptor, Tyree Guyton has also been described as an urban environmental artist. He has waged a personal war on urban blight on Detroit's East Side, transforming his neighborhood into a living indoor/outdoor art gallery. Through his art, Guyton has drawn attention to the plight of Detroit’s forgotten neighborhoods and ...
He has been creating art for over 45 years. Guyton’s receives commissions from around the world and his work is collected nationally and internationally, and is featured in the collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts, the University Of Michigan Museum Of Art, the Perez Museum, the Studio Museum of Harlem and many others.
