About Siblovia

Siblovia was founded by Tyrus McCormick.

It is designed as an eclectic website Featuring "Anything Art" and to invite other artists to join!
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Tyrus McCormick • Visual Artist • Born: April 22nd 1963, Okinawa, Japan.

I suppose it is never easy talking about yourself, and now I find it necessary to talk about myself. I was born in Okinawa, Japan, April 22nd 1963. My Father was in the U.S. Air force at the time and is of Greek and Irish Descent. My Mother was born and raised in Okinawa, Japan. Shortly after my birth we went to The United States. During the course of the next few years My Father received orders and we were relocated to several places. During our displacement our family had grown, I have three siblings, all brothers. During this early time, I had developed an interest in visual art. My brothers would even brag about my talent. My teachers encouraged it and even today I have always had my hands in art.

Later in life, I joined the U.S. Air Force and served four years. I earned some college funding through the military and enrolled into college at Miami-Dade Community College to pursue a Degree in Art. It was nice to get to art classes and really learning about art. It was such a learning experience, that I earned over eighty credits. That is more than twenty I needed to graduate.

Shortly after graduating from Miami-Dade Community College, I planned to finish up at Florida international University. However, The Love Bug hit me and I had started dated my wife Kathy and we were soon engaged. At that time she was a student at Florida State University in Tallahassee Florida. She encouraged me to go to school there. We planned to get married after she graduated in May of 1990. We also decided to move back to South Florida and I would finish up at Florida International University.

For the next few years I managed to take classes here and there. Kathy and I started our family. Shortly after Hurricane Andrew, We had our first child. Brittany, and more after that, Jacob, Hannah, Julianne and Charles. So in 1996, I earned my B.F.A. Degree in Painting, I graduated Magna Cum Laude, Kinda cool! I also had a Studio at ArtSouth in Homestead Florida. My day jobs were always in the Graphic Art Field. I was doing Paste-Up, Working on Ads, I even owned a Sign Business. Graphic Arts has taught me a plenty. Many of the formal issues of design and communicating an idea visually has always been there. Then in 2007, I was offered to relocate to Banner Elk North Carolina.

Martin, the owner of the Ad Agency I work for decided to open a satellite office, Martin and his wife Nancy, provided me and our family a life changing experience. The Mountains of North Carolina are breathtaking and inspiring, the winters are a little challenging, but truly a wonderful place for a family to grow. Since being here, we’ve had one other child – Ethan James, he is our native North Carolinian and we are expecting twin girls in April of 2010!  Well the twin Girls arrived!  April 7th, which happens to be the same birthday as Julianne, we are blessed with Lois & Audrey!  Two more North Carolinian Tar-Heels!

I have always continued to work in the graphic arts field, print design & web Design, after all, that is what pays the bills, but have longed to get back into fine art. Time would just slip by, The mind is willing and the desire is always there. Just always looking for the window of time and get back to painting. Painting has always been my true passion, but I also enjoy wood carving and ceramic art. I also conceptualize things in other media and even delving into mixed media. Basically, anything I can get my hands into.

Using my hands has always part of the balance I seek to justify using the computer to create visual images and messages. After all, computers only display a stream of electrons from a computer monitor that hit your retina and interpreted by your mind. That media has troubled me as an artist, and has never truly made me feel whole as an artist. This superficial media just seems fleeting and intangible. However, some of the frustration I feel, is that computers represent a new art media, a 21st century media that will one day be part of a movement. Something exciting I am part and should embrace!

I can imagine many of today’s visual artists feel the same. Time seems limited and computers can save time and now offers convenience to artist. Personally, I seek a balance of past media and today’s technological resources. We will always be in a doorway between the past and the future. As Artists, the standards of the past and its traditional mediums help us to compare where we were and were we are headed. It is simply part of the struggle. After all, artists of the past had embraced new materials, paint in tubes was once a marvel, industrial enamel paints were great, even modern scientific theories and geo-political ideas helped shape visual art. The haunting images of past paintings and how does one compare to those artists before my time and the labors they endured to create visual inspiration and passion.

I suppose the next step will be continued use of robotics to create a final piece of tangible art. Printers are used and even accepted as a final tangible piece of art. This interface seems bothersome. Art is becoming less tactile, more conceptual, seemingly less or worse disposable.

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