Cross Lypka
Upcoming:
April April at NADA Miami
Cross Lypka, Paul Peng, Al Svoboda
Opening: December 3 - 7, 2024
Ice Palace Studios, Miami
House of Seiko at FOG Fair
Cross Lypka (solo presentation)
Opening: January 23 -26, 2025
Fort Mason Center, San Francisco
inquires: cole@houseofseiko.info
Press release from Tarantula, Cross Lypka’s solo exhibition at House of Seiko:
Cross Lypka is the moniker for Tyler Cross and Kyle Lypka, long-time partners and artistic collaborators. Their working process in ceramic follows a practical exchange of tasks. Tyler draws a lexicon of visual forms, Kyle interprets and hand-builds from this repertoire, they edit, Tyler glazes, and Kyle fires. Lastly, subtle surface treatments and sealants are applied. The works that emerge reflec this back-and-forth trade, in partnership with the material’s own desires and constraints.
What does it mean to take something porous, imperfect, shrinking, warping, issue-filled... and adapt it to the rigidity of an architecture?
For this exhibition, the pair have pivoted to making works in response to the space’s structural conditions. Rather than enlarging existing forms in the practice, they created segmented sculptures with systems of repeated components. One can imagine these objects stretching or multiplying themselves across a room; expanding the intervals between ceramic elements to scale to a space. Thus, a kind of
elasticity is achieved in glass and stone. Forms referenced internally with language like “X, book, shovel, F” play new roles in the project.
Building on classical interior architecture, the works perform as columns, moldings and spacial protrusions that adorn the gallery. Touching distinct corners and verticals of the space, the works narrate the walls in form-based phrases. The fired sculptures bear fleeting compositions. Strategically glazed, their matte colors drain via channels and spillways. The resulting surfaces are left stained in directions that toy with the room’s gravity. This depicted movement is contained at times by trims of sandy flashing where the works meet the walls.
House of Seiko
Jesse Stecklow, 2024
Cross Lypka is the moniker for Tyler Cross and Kyle Lypka, long-time partners and artistic collaborators. Their working process in ceramic follows a practical exchange of tasks. Tyler draws a lexicon of visual forms, Kyle interprets and hand-builds from this repertoire, they edit, Tyler glazes, and Kyle fires. Lastly, subtle surface treatments and sealants are applied. The works that emerge reflec this back-and-forth trade, in partnership with the material’s own desires and constraints.
What does it mean to take something porous, imperfect, shrinking, warping, issue-filled... and adapt it to the rigidity of an architecture?
For this exhibition, the pair have pivoted to making works in response to the space’s structural conditions. Rather than enlarging existing forms in the practice, they created segmented sculptures with systems of repeated components. One can imagine these objects stretching or multiplying themselves across a room; expanding the intervals between ceramic elements to scale to a space. Thus, a kind of
elasticity is achieved in glass and stone. Forms referenced internally with language like “X, book, shovel, F” play new roles in the project.
Building on classical interior architecture, the works perform as columns, moldings and spacial protrusions that adorn the gallery. Touching distinct corners and verticals of the space, the works narrate the walls in form-based phrases. The fired sculptures bear fleeting compositions. Strategically glazed, their matte colors drain via channels and spillways. The resulting surfaces are left stained in directions that toy with the room’s gravity. This depicted movement is contained at times by trims of sandy flashing where the works meet the walls.
House of Seiko
Jesse Stecklow, 2024