Kyle Talbott

Kyle Talbott was raised outside of Washington D.C., where he came of age in the city’s punk and hardcore music scene. That sensibility found a parallel outlet in graffiti writing, a practice he pursued seriously throughout his youth, which gave him an early, physical understanding of scale, color, and mark-making.

He went on to study painting in Philadelphia and later in Rome, under Stanley Whitney, Marina Adams and Dona Nelson receiving his BFA from Tyler School of Art in 1995.

Kyle has been published in numerous books and magazines about graffiti, was instrumental in the creation of Handselecta (a type foundry that inspired the book) and has partaken in a few solo and group shows over the years. 

And then he put things on pause, building a quiet practice of drawing, raising his children with his wife… and, amongst other things, started a Waldorf school in Brooklyn.

On returning to painting, Talbott has said: “I wanted to make big, immersive paintings about love, I knew that I had to live it with my family first. I made the choice to put painting on hold with the hope that if the paintings were meant to be painted, in time, they would be made.”

Talbott lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

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