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Tyler Turkle was born May 29, 1947 in Alliance, Ohio. He received his B.A. in History in 1970 from Mount Union College

Mount Union College

The University of Mount Union is a 4-year private, coeducational, liberal arts college in Alliance, Ohio.Mount Union enrolls 2200 undergraduates. Approximately 50 percent are women and 50 percent are men, representing more than 22 states and 13 countries. Mount Union has an active alumni base of...

in Alliance, Ohio

Alliance, Ohio

Alliance is a city in Stark and Mahoning counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. The population was 22,322 at the 2010 census. Alliance's nickname is "The Carnation City", and the city is home to the University of Mount Union....

and studied cinematography at Kent State University

Kent State University

Kent State University is a public research university located in Kent, Ohio, United States. The university has eight campuses around the northeast Ohio region with the main campus in Kent being the largest...

. From 1975 to 1987 he taught art, photography, video and filmmaking in the School of Visual Arts at Florida State University

Florida State University

The Florida State University is a space-grant and sea-grant public university located in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a comprehensive doctoral research university with medical programs and significant research activity as determined by the Carnegie Foundation...

. He conducts graduate seminars in the Florida State University College of Motion Picture, Television and Recording Arts

Florida State University College of Motion Picture, Television and Recording Arts

The Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts , located in Tallahassee, Florida, is one of fifteen colleges comprising the Florida State University . The College was founded in 1989...

and lectures on art and media at colleges, universities and museums. His films have appeared in national and international film festival

Film festival

A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues, usually in a single locality. More and more often film festivals show part of their films to the public by adding outdoor movie screenings...

s while his paintings and sculptures have been widely exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the United States and Europe. Turkle first exhibited his artworks at White Columns

White Columns

White Columns is New York City’s oldest alternative non-profit space and one of its most prestigious. White Columns is known as a show case for up and coming artists....

and CABLE in Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village, , , , .in New York often simply called "the Village", is a largely residential neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City. A large majority of the district is home to upper middle class families...

and later at the Greenberg Wilson Gallery in SoHo

SoHo

SoHo is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, notable for being the location of many artists' lofts and art galleries, and also, more recently, for the wide variety of stores and shops ranging from trendy boutiques to outlets of upscale national and international chain stores...

. He is cited for his innovative use of liquid acrylic and for developing the technique of controlled pouring to produce large scale paintings and sculptures. Turkle is also credited for assigning the term "Plastometry" to a theoretical framework connecting life and art.

Turkle was selected for the 41st and 44th Biennial Exhibitions of Contemporary American Painting at the Corcoran Gallery of Art

Corcoran Gallery of Art

The Corcoran Gallery of Art is the largest privately supported cultural institution in Washington, DC. The museum's main focus is American art. The permanent collection includes works by Rembrandt, Eugène Delacroix, Edgar Degas, Thomas Gainsborough, John Singer Sargent, Claude Monet, Pablo...

, Washington, DC, as well as exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California; Stedelijk Museum

Stedelijk Museum

Founded in 1874, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam is a museum for classic modern and contemporary art in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. It has been housed on the Paulus Potterstraat, next to Museum Square Museumplein and to the Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh Museum and the Concertgebouw, in Amsterdam Zuid...

, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...

; the Ringling Museum of Art

John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art

The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art is the state art museum of Florida, located in Sarasota, Florida. It was established in 1927 as the legacy of Mable and John Ringling for the people of Florida...

, Sarasota, Florida; the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; the Rooseum

Rooseum

The Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, located in Malmö, Sweden, was a formally private-owned centre for contemporary art. Founded in 1988 by the Swedish art collector and financier Fredrik Roos, the Rooseum promoted experimental relationships between art, artists and audience, by offering...

, Malmö, Sweden; and the New Orleans Museum of Art. His artwork has also been widely shown in exhibitions organized by the independent curatorial team of Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo

Richard Milazzo

Richard Milazzo was the editor and co-publisher of Out of London Press in the 1970s. Among the books he edited were The Syntactic Revolution: Collected Writings of Abraham Lincoln Gillespie and the first English facsimile edition of Pontormo’s Diary...

.

Turkle is actively involved in projects both nationally and locally. He is recognized as a volunteer filmmaker for Steven Spielberg's organization, Survivors of the SHOAH/Visual History Foundation

USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education

The USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, formerly Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, is a nonprofit organization established by Steven Spielberg in 1994, one year after completing the Academy Award-winning film Schindler's List...

and he served as a trustee of the Edward F. Marsicano Literary Trust. From 1995 to 2000, he was the Artistic Director of the Tallahassee-Leon County Cultural Resources Commission and served as a member of the CRC Board of Directors. Prior to becoming the Executive Director of the Leon County

Leon County, Florida

Leon County is a county located in the state of Florida, named after the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León. At the 2010 Census, the population was 275,487. The county seat of Leon County is Tallahassee which also serves as the state capital. The county seat is home to two of Florida's major...

Schools' Foundation in 1999, Turkle served as a Foundation Board member from 1995 to 1998 and as Chairman of the Board for the 1998-1999 term. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Institute for Research in Art at the University of South Florida

University of South Florida

The University of South Florida, also known as USF, is a member institution of the State University System of Florida, one of the state's three flagship universities for public research, and is located in Tampa, Florida, USA...

, Tampa, and he is a member of the Florida Supreme Court “Arts in the Court” Advisory Committee. He served as an at-large member of the Consortium of Florida Education Foundations and the Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science Acquisition and Collections Committee. Turkle is currently Executive Director of Big Bend Habitat for Humanity in Tallahassee, Florida.

Turkle is also a filmmaker. While at Kent State, He was exposed to the avant garde/experimental films and filmmakers of the day - Richard Myers

Richard Myers (filmmaker)

Richard Myers is an American experimental filmmaker based in northeast Ohio.Myers taught at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio and is particularly known for his 1970 film Confrontation at Kent State, which he filmed in Kent during the week following the Kent State shootings of May 4, 1970; it is...

, Bruce Connor, Stan Brakhage

Stan Brakhage

James Stanley Brakhage , better known as Stan Brakhage, was an American non-narrative filmmaker who is considered to be one of the most important figures in 20th century experimental film....

, Mike Kuchar

Mike Kuchar

Mike Kuchar is an American underground filmmaker and actor. Kuchar is notable for his low-budget and camp films such as Sins of the Fleshapoids and The Craven Sluck.-Biography:...

and George Kuchar

George Kuchar

George Kuchar was an American underground film director, known for his "low-fi" aesthetic.-Early life and career:...

, Jonas Mekas

Jonas Mekas

Jonas Mekas is a Lithuanian-born American filmmaker, writer, and curator who has often been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema." His work has been exhibited in museums and festivals across Europe and America.-Biography:...

, Gunvor Nelson, Lenny Lipton

Lenny Lipton

Leonard "Lenny" Lipton is a well known author, filmmaker and stereoscopic vision system inventor.Lipton wrote the lyrics to the song Puff the Magic Dragon as a 19-year-old at Cornell University. He graduated from Cornell University where he majored in physics. The song was a hit in 1963 for Peter...

, Ed Emshwiller

Ed Emshwiller

Ed Emshwiller was a visual artist notable for illustrations of many science fiction magazine covers and for his pioneering experimental films...

, among others. Turkle’s main interest, then and now, is the short documentary film

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

and video, mostly constructed around on-camera interviews. His interest in the moving image corresponds to his interest in the still image as both play back and forth across the fields of painting and sculpture. Over the last thirty-five years, his films and videos have explored subjects as far ranging as Yo-Yo

Yo-yo

The yo-yo in its simplest form is an object consisting of an axle connected to two disks, and a length of twine looped around the axle, similar to a slender spool...

Champion Lance Lynch; novelist Harry Crews

Harry Crews

Harry Crews is an American novelist, playwright, short story writer and essayist. He was born in Bacon County, Georgia in 1935 and served in the Marines during the Korean War. He attended the University of Florida on the GI Bill, but dropped out to travel...

; the Rattlesnake Roundup in Whigham, Georgia

Whigham, Georgia

Whigham is a city in Grady County, Georgia, United States. The population was 631 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Whigham is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land....

; the "Swine Time" festival in Climax, Georgia

Climax, Georgia

Climax is a city in Decatur County, Georgia, United States. The town was named Climax because it is located at the highest point of the railroad between Savannah, Georgia and the Chattahoochee River...

; and the football rivalry between Florida State University and the University of Florida.

Turkle’s films and videos have been shown with his paintings and sculptures in museums and galleries throughout the United States and Europe including the San Francisco Museum of Art, Herbert F. Johnson Museum - Cornell University

Cornell University

Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth was first granted a Charter from the State of Texas in 1892 as the "Fort Worth Public Library and Art Gallery", evolving through several name changes and different facilities in Fort Worth...

, and the New Orleans Museum of Art

New Orleans Museum of Art

The New Orleans Museum of Art is the oldest fine arts museum in the city of New Orleans. It is situated within City Park, a short distance from the intersection of Carrollton Avenue and Esplanade Avenue, and near the terminus of the "Canal Street - City Park" streetcar line...

. Many of the films and videos have also been shown in film festivals including the New York Independent Filmmakers Exposition, Bellevue(WA) Film Festival, Athens International Film Festival, Penn State

Pennsylvania State University

The Pennsylvania State University, commonly referred to as Penn State or PSU, is a public research university with campuses and facilities throughout the state of Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1855, the university has a threefold mission of teaching, research, and public service...

Film Festival, and the Sherwood Oaks(CA) Experimental Film Festival. Turkle is the nephew of children's book author and illustrator Brinton Turkle (1915-2003), winner of the Caldecott Honor in 1970.

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