contact: tucker@wtucker-art.com
Videos
w tucker / studio / how I work
my left hand / how I work / how the work has evolved
w. tucker / little studio tour ... things I like
W. Tucker in conversation with Heyd Fontenot
tayloe piggott gallery - 2020 - check out the online digital catalogue, and videos related to studio work below:
tayloe piggott gallery / solo exehibition / jackson hole, wyoming
"heads in the mountains" / 2020
tucker's studio, a short video
other work by w. tucker - (updated more regularly than this website)
Artist statement
The work begins unplanned. Line drawings, markings, painted strokes and scribbles are made with numerous mediums including oil, resin stick, charcoal, graphite, watercolor and ink. I begin my work most often by choosing from a collection of found materials – old tabletops, cabinet doors, wood blocks, old book covers and book pages.
The drawings/markings that follow are created with my non-dominant hand. The use of my left hand allows me to draw in an unpracticed manner, with less fixed intention and control.
My 2D work has expanded to installations that include wall drawings, books, and “standing boxes”. The wall drawings are transient, painted over when the installation is dismantled, having a beginning and an end. Books are either created or have been adapted from existing books – images are either added to the pages, or pages are removed, and new pages are stitched in. The boxes are an exploration of the work in 3 dimensions, of interior and exterior – a comment on what we present to the world and what we may choose to hide.
The ”ships” or boats are made from wood blocks, the odd piece of scrap wood and fabric. They are supportive, sturdy yet prone to imbalance and vulnerability.
Over time I have realized that in the finished work I see aspects of our human condition – vulnerability, frailty, kindness, anger, frustration, humor, curiosity, and relationship. As well as glimpses of stories, moments, dilemmas that may represent how we approach or walk through life.
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EDUCATION
1982 | BA, Drama, New York University, New York, NY |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 | Upcoming October – Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX Upcoming September/October – Maya Frodeman Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY |
2025 | “I made these things for you”, grayDuck Gallery, Austin TX “this I found”, Galleri Hedenius, Stockholm, Sweden |
2024 | “forever, and no time at all”, Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX, (June) “compassion” said the rabbit, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX |
2023 | “standing / facing”, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson, WY |
2022 | “we’re all just walking each other home”, Galleri Hedenius, Stockholm, Sweden “be still”, Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX “a cloud floats in, a ship passes by”, Big Medium, Austin, TX |
2021 | “in the middle of all this nonsense”, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX |
2020 | “wish you were here / and you are”, Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX “heads in the mountains”, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson, WY |
2018 | “I am this big / I am this small”, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX |
2017 | “all that matters is the getting back up”, Koelsch Haus, Houston, TX |
2016 | “the captain asked for a show of hands”, Grey Duck Gallery, Austin, TX “a quiet moment”, Koelsch Haus (formally Koelsch Gallery), Houston, TX |
2015 | “box, boxing, boxed”, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX |
2014 | “the day before, and the day before that”, Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX |
2013 | “the sound of a house”, Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX “if I knew I’d tell you”, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX “remix”, Blackbox, Austin, TX |
2012 | “to stand in a boat that floats”, School of Art and Design, Texas State University San Marcos, TX |
2010 | “how to draw”, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX “books on a table, lines on a wall”, Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX |
2008 | “fragile”, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX |
2007 | “Lost & Found”, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX “with tiny arms he flew”, The Fallout Gallery, Las Vegas, NV |
2003 | “Recent Work”, RiskPress Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
2001 | Contentfree Gallery, Seattle, WA |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 | “Petites”, Maya Frodeman Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY |
2025 | Outsider Art Fair, New York, with Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX |
2024 | “once more with feeling”, Big Medium, Austin, TX Curated by Coka Trevino & Shea Little Outsider Art Fair, New York, with Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX |
2023 | Outsider Art Fair, New York, with Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX “Outsider Art Group Exhibition”, Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX |
2022 | “MASS + 1 Part 2”, MASS Gallery, Austin, TX Outsider Art Fair, New York, with Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX “Through the winter”, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX |
2021 | Outsider Art Fair, New York, with Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX |
2020 | Outsider Art Fair, New York, with Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX |
2019 | Outsider Art Fair, New York, with Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX |
2018 | “Photo/Montage 12 x 12”, grayDuck Gallery, Austin, TX |
2018 | “ears of Buddha”, Koelsch Haus, Houston, TX |
2017 | “Sculp-chur”, Dimension Gallery, Austin, TX “Cowboy”, Feast Gallery, Fayetteville, AR |
2015 | “Way Kool”, Koelsch Haus (formally Koelsch Gallery), Houston, TX |
2014 | 20th Anniversary Celebration, Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX Longitude/Latitude, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX |
2013 | Advanced Young Artist / Artist-Mentor Program, Art Museum of Austin / Arthouse at the Jones Center “treat yourself ….”, Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX |
2012 | “lights, camera, action”, Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX |
2011 | “from outside, in floats a music box”, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX “America As We Feel It”, Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX “The Object Of Desire”, dberman gallery, Wimberely, TX “78701 -> 78676”, dberman gallery, Wimberely, TX |
2010 | “10th Anniversary Group Show”, dberman gallery, Austin, TX “It’s a group thing”, Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX Museo de Arte Moderno, Trujillo, Peru – through G Gallery, Houston, TX People’s Gallery Exhibition at Austin City Hall, Austin, TX “Quinceanera! show”, Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX |
2009 | “Winter (group) Show”, Thomas Paul Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA “zoo of eight”, Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX “Summer Group Show”, Thomas Paul Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA “drawn (not quartered)”, dberman gallery, Austin, TX “Second Stories”, 2-person exhibit, Thomas Paul Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA “five x seven”, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX “THE BIG SHOW”, Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY “The Story Lies Within”, 4-person exhibit, Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX People’s Gallery Exhibition at Austin City Hall, Austin, TX Los Angeles Art Show, Los Angeles Convention Center, through Thomas Paul Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA |
2008 | “what is my line?”, 4-person exhibit, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX, (Courtesy of Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX) Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas (Art Fair), through Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX |
2007 | flow fair, Miami Invitational, Miami, FL, through Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX “Pushing The Envelope, A Drawing Show”, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, TX “animales”, 4-person exhibit, Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX “Self Portraits”, Riskpress Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
2004 | Sarpa Studio, Culver City, CA |
1999 | “The Art Salon”, 3-perosn exhibit, 14614 Addison, Sherman Oaks, CA Bergamont Station / Writer’s Bootcamp, Santa Monica, CA |
1996 | “Tribal Industrial”, Ivy Substation, Los Angeles, CA Keller Galerie, 2-person exhibit, Zurich, Switzerland BR Art Galerie, 2-person exhibit, Bern, Switzerland Galerie Sprungbratt, 2-person exhibit, Niederglatt, Switzerland |
1995 | Susan Whitney Gallery, Seattle, WA |
1994 | “Group Show”, Liz Blackman Gallery, October, Los Angeles, CA “Group Show”, Liz Blackman Gallery, July, Los Angeles, CA “Art Los Angeles”, Los Angeles Convention Center, through Liz Blackman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Works on Paper”, Santa Monica Civic Center, through Liz Blackman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1992 | Lipsett Gallery, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD “In Search of the Contemporary Figurative”, 2-person exhibit, Setting The Stage Gallery, Alexandria, VA Outside-In Gallery, November, Los Angeles, CA Setting The Stage Gallery, Alexandria, VA Outside-In Gallery, October, Los Angeles, CA Studio Raid, Los Angeles, CA |
1991 | “Summer Group Exhibition”, Studio Raid, Los Angeles, CA “Winter Group Exhibition”, Studio Raid, Los Angeles, CA |
PUBLICATIONS / AWARDS
2012-2013 | Austin Critics Table Awards Work of Art: Installation (tie) W. Tucker: “to stand in a boat that floats”, Texas State University Galleries Beili Lui: “Amass”, Texas State University Galleries Artist of the Year: W. Tucker, “to stand in a boat that floats”, Texas State University Galleries |
2012 | New American Paintings, No. 102, West Issue / Juror: Bill Arning, Director – Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas |
2006 | New American Paintings, Volume 67, Juror: Tumelo Mosaka, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY |
RESIDENCY
2008 | Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL |
1991 | Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Artist’s Residency, Temecula, CA |