SETH TYLER BLACK
  • ABOUT
  • FILM
  • THEATRE
  • ART
  • UPCOMING EVENTS
  • Contact

​CATALOGUE.



SELECT GALLERY WORK.

LOVE OF FREEDOM [2021]: 
mixed media
20" x 20" mixed media: newsprint & pumus on acrylic painting
2021 - Love of Freedom, Rochester Contemporary Art Center: Last Year on Earth Exhibition, Rochester, NY
2023 - Love of Freedom, Market Research: Used To [music video]
*private collection
Picture

SOCIETY'S MASK [2020]: 
photography
10" x 10" framed digital photography: semimatte photographic print
2020 - Society's Mask, Pineapple Co: 2020 A Group Show, Buffalo, NY
2023 - Society's Mask, Market Research: Used To [music video]
*private collection
Picture
Picture

DiSTANT TONES [2019]: 
mixed media
13.5" x 13.5" framed mixed media: compact disc on acrylic primed canvas
Picture
Picture

Lost Love [2019]: 
mixed media
20" x 20" framed mixed media: sent postcards on acrylic primed canvas
Picture

AT THE BEGINNING [2019]: 
mixed media
21" x 27" framed mixed  media : polaroid photograph mounted on matte & framed
2020 - At the Beginning, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center: Member Exhibition, Buffalo, NY
Picture
Picture

DELICATE TASTES [2017]: 
mixed media
9" x 12" framed mixed media: wine, coffee, ash and poetry on gessoed canvas
2020 - ​Delicate Tastes, Pineapple Co.: Love Notes, Buffalo, NY
2023 - Delicate Tastes, Market Research: Used To [music video]
*private collection
Picture


MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE.

RUPTURE THE BODY [2011]: 
interdisciplinary performance art
performance: Seth Tyler Black
installation & projection design: Seth Tyler Black
music: Ponch
​ancillary vocal work: L Micca

desc. a durational multimedia performance art installation depicting an artist's will in the crux of creation
2011 - Rupture the Body: Incarnation 1, Hallwalls: Artists and Models Affair, Buffalo, NY
2011 - Rupture the Body: Incarnation 2, ALT Theatre, Buffalo, NY
2011 - Rupture the Body: Incarnation 2, New Grounds Roasting Company, York, PA
2011 -Rupture the Body: Incarnation 3, Main-Washington Exchange, Buffalo, NY
2011 - Rupture the Body: Incarnation 4, Sugar City, Buffalo, NY
Picture

WAR OF THE WORLDS: MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE BROADCAST [2012]:
​interdisciplinary performance art

adapted: Orson Welles & Mercury Theatre on the Air
direction & media design: Seth Tyler Black
performance: Seth Tyler Black & James Robert Steiner
music: Ponch

​ancillary vocal work: Kristen Glaser

desc. a multimedia performance adaptation of Orson Welle's 1938 radio broadcast
2012 - War of the Worlds: a Multimedia Broadcast, ALT Theatre, Buffalo, NY
Picture

9 STEPS TO BOHEMIA [2012]:
​interdisciplinary performance art

performance: Seth Tyler Black
installation & projection design: Seth Tyler Black
music: Bryan Wolbert

desc. a  multimedia performance art installation depicting an artist attempting to create the perfect aesthetically led life
2012 - Nine Steps to Bohemia, Buffalo Infringement Festival, Buffalo, NY
2012 - Nine Steps to Bohemia, Chicago Fringe Festival, Chicago, IL
Picture

THE JESTER [2012]:
​interdisciplinary performance art

performance: Seth Tyler Black
installation & projection design: Seth Tyler Black

desc. a depiction of the artist in a cycle fighting against being a public spectacle
​2012 - Une Exécution de CYCLE OF LIFE, ALT Theatre, Buffalo, NY
2013 - Une Execution for Art, City of Night, Buffalo, NY
2014 - Jester and the Modern Man, Cirque de Lune, ELAB, Buffalo, NY
​2014 - Truly Defective Artist, Hallwalls: Artists and Models Affair, 
Buffalo, NY 
Picture

A Portrait: A Dance Live [2013]:
​interdisciplinary performance art

performance: Amy Taravella, K Cornelius, Seth Tyler Black
installation & projection design: Seth Tyler Black

choreography: Amy Taravella
sound: K Cornelius
desc. a multimedia performance accompaniment for the short film, A Portrait: A Dance, where an artist depicts the struggle between passion & comfort through their final movements 
2013 - A Portrait: A Dance Live, ALT Theatre, Buffalo, NY
2013 - A Portrait: A Dance Live, Sweetness 7 Cafe, Buffalo, NY 

Picture


EXPERIMENTAL FILM.

Moonflow [2011]:
experimental short film

direction & image: Seth Tyler Black
​desc. a 15-minute gazing ball of flowing water and reflection
2011 - Moonflow, ALT Theatre: Ravings IV, Buffalo, NY
2012 - Moonflow, ALT Theatre: Sweet Drip, Buffalo, NY
2013 - Moonflow, PRO Creation Productions: Grain Dances Steel Floats, Buffalo, NY 
2013 - Moonflow, Subversive Theatre: Angels in America - Perestroika, Buffalo, NY 
2014 - Moonflow, D Ceglia Dance Project: Come Together, Buffalo, NY
2014 - Moonflow, the Way Station, Brooklyn, NY
​2014 - Moonflow, PRO Creation Productions: Grain Dances Steel Floats Pt 2, Buffalo, NY
2020 - Moonflow x Show Me [Don't Tell Me] How You Feel, Nomel Arts Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Picture

CYCLE OF LIFE [2012]:
experimental short film series

direction & image: Seth Tyler Black
music: Bryan Wolbert
​desc. a visceral depiction of the personal Cycle of Life [Birth through Rebirth & Death] told through color, movement, and repetition, told in six parts
ADDICTION [2012]:
experimental short film

direction & image: Seth Tyler Black
music: Bryan Wolbert
​desc. a visceral depiction of the personal cycle of Addiction told through color, movement, and repetition
2012 - Cycle of Life, City of Night, Buffalo, NY
2012 - Cycle of Life, Rust Belt Books, Buffalo, NY
2012 - Cycle of Life, ALT Theatre, Buffalo, NY 
2012 - Addiction, Anthology Film Archives: 2012 NewFilmmaker’s Film Festival, New York, NY 
2013 - Cycle of Life, Cornelia Street Cafe, New York, NY
​2019 - Addiction, Experimental Film Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
Picture
Picture

THE PORTRAITS [2020]:
experimental short film series

direction & image: Seth Tyler Black & K Cornelius
soundtrack: K Cornelius
choreography: Amy Taravella
​desc. a triptych series  visually describing the artist's process from struggled idea, to creation, to defining & producing an output
A PORTRAIT: A Philosophy [2019]:
experimental short film series

direction: Seth Tyler Black
image: K Cornelius
choreography: Amy Taravella

desc. an effort to visually describe the artist's process from struggled idea, to creation, to defining & producing an output
A PORTRAIT: A COMPOSITION [2020]:
experimental short film series

direction & image: Seth Tyler Black
soundtrack: K Cornelius
choreography: Amy Taravella

desc. an artist's struggle to produce, despite having the will and drive to do so
A PORTRAIT: A DANCE [2013]:
experimental short film series

direction & image: Seth Tyler Black
soundtrack: K Cornelius
choreography: Amy Taravella

desc. ​a depiction of a dancer's struggle between passion and comfort as told in the final show movements of the dancer, Amy Taravella
2013 - A Portrait: A Dance, ALT Theatre, Buffalo, NY
2013 - A Portrait: A Dance, Sweetness 7 Cafe, Buffalo, NY
2013 - A Portrait: A Dance, Gypsy Parlor, Buffalo, NY 
2013 - A Portrait: A Dance, Center for Analytical Psychology, Buffalo, NY 
2013 - A Portrait: A Dance, Cornelia St. Café, New York, NY
2014 - A Portrait: A Dance, the Way Station, Brooklyn, NY
​
2019 - A Portrait: A Dance, CheonAn Dance Film Festival, CheonAn, South Korea

​2020 - A Portrait: A Philosophy, Druk International Film Festival, Paro, Bhutan
​[**winner: best experimental film]
​2020 - A Portrait: A Philosophy, Košice International Film Festival, Košice, Slovakia 
2020 - A Portrait: A Philosophy, World Film Carnival, Singapore
[**winner: best experimental film]
​[***critics choice award: best short]
2020 - A Portrait: A Philosophy, Experimental Film Forum, Los Angeles, CA
[**honorable mention]

2020 - A Portrait: A Philosophy, American Film & Literature Festival,  Athens, GA
2020 - A Portrait: A Philosophy, Acorazado Film Festival, Caracas, Venezuela

Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture


Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.