Tyrome Tripoli

Tyrome Tripoli was born in 1967. Growing up in a small beach town located in Southern California, Tripoli developed an early love for the ocean. As a child, he collected artifacts off the shore, a driving force that continues to fuel his art practice today. In 1990, Tripoli graduated from the University of California at San Diego with a Bachelor's Degree in Molecular Biology and Visual Arts. In 1992 he found himself unfulfilled with a career in science, so he moved to San Francisco where he began his career as an artist making sculptural metal furniture, fixtures, and architectural elements. In 2001 Tripoli was awarded an Artist in Residency at the San Francisco Recology.  This residency fueled his current passion for creating assemblage sculptures from the reuse of pre-existing objects and the alternative use of industrial materials. The work is about integration. He collects his art materials from his immediate environment, scavenging objects from the city streets, the beach shore, or wherever they occur. As a consumer, he saves objects of interest from his own post-consumer refuse. He also collects industrial discards from salvage yards and factories. As a practice in sustainability, it is very important that he uses the objects “as is” and sorts the mostly plastic debris into a visual library. It is at that moment the plastic trash becomes valuable art material. Next, he blends these pre-existing forms into unexpected juxtapositions. The objects are approached as puzzle pieces with a set shape and color then carefully integrated together. This practice is about working within your means and working with nature not working against it. Since 2003, Tripoli has lived and worked in Brooklyn, NY.

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