IOSTREAM by Tyler Hobbs at Surovek Gallery

What separates man from machine? How are the two artistically related, and when they are inevitably brought closer by technological progress, what will the result be? My work explores these questions. - Tyler Hobbs

Tyler Hobbs has a background in fine art and a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin. He combines these skills to create some of the most sought after works in both the traditional and the NFT art worlds.

 

Hobbs works with pen and ink in a sketchbook, creates designs with a robotic plotter and generates algorithms for his works. Each piece usually begins with a combination of painting, drawing and computer generated sketches. After the first draft is complete Hobbs continues to shape and form the final work. 

 

The iostream series, available at Surovek Gallery, is a combination of Hobbs’ digital and analog skills. He worked with a local printmaker to create iostream, his first series of screenprints.

 

 

Hobbs says that he is very comfortable mixing paints and using a paintbrush, and while the digital world is straight lines and perfection, the analog work is the opposite, “I find it really interesting to kind of cross the two worlds over,” he said, “and to take like a really rigidly, perfectly specified design, like an algorithm might give you, and then when you create it or execute it by hand you introduce this layer of error and imperfection and richness and it adds a whole extra depth and complexity.”

 

Tyler Hobbs has had recent solo exhibits at Unit in London and Pace Gallery in New York City and much success at Christie’s and Sotheby’s. His works are currently on view at the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio and are in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Art + Light and the University of Texas at Austin, College of Natural Sciences.

 

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iostream is a generative algorithmic series of 12 unique outputs, produced as a six-color silkscreen limited edition print on Legion Stonehenge paper at 24 x 20 inches (61 × 50.8 cm). The NFT that accompanies the piece represents the certified ownership of the physical work, which is controlled by an NFC chip.

 

Please contact us if you would like more information about the IOSTREAM series, available at Surovek Gallery.

 

July 24, 2025