About Valton Tyler

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    VALTON TYLER'S OTHERWORDLY ART: From the Heart of Texas by Edward M. Gómez Valton Tyler.

    The following review is from The Brooklyn Rail, April 2011, New York City


    "Those are some good drinking songs," the painter Valton Tyler observes, referring to some of country music's classic, she-broke-my-heart, my-baby-left-me weepers that come streaming through his radio as he barrels down a six-lane highway amidst the urban sprawl of Garland, Texas. Today, Tyler lives in a small house, with a modest studio, on a tree-lined street in this nondescript, suburban patch of low-rise factories, fast-food joints, and plain tract housing about half an hour's drive to the northeast of downtown Dallas. ...

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