Evening Standard - ES Magazine
TYLER THE (REAL) CREATOR
That Beyoncé cover-shoot for ‘Vogue’ catapulted then 23-year-old photographer Tyler Mitchell into a new realm of success, including being selected for the Time Magazine Next 100 by painter Amy Sherald. Now the Atlanta-born artist, who takes inspiration from the history of images of Black people in the American South, has opened his first UK solo show at megagallery Gagosian. His contemporary portraiture — a football player with angel wings, a reclining figure enclosed by a picket fence — makes the familiar seem strange and challenging. Until 12 Nov (gagosian.com)