The exhibition features several new quilts - ranging from the tenderly poetic, Fernanda’s Touch (2025) to the tragic-comedy of Convict Poker (2025), which depicts a popular event at the Angola Prison Rodeo - a group of inmates playing Texas Hold ‘Em at a red plastic table, while being charged by an angry bull. Tyler’s narrative quilts also celebrate his friends from the Angola Prison Drama Program, depicting them in character with the full pathos of their performance. This will be Tyler’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, the city where he first encountered the Black Power movement in 1970, on a trip to visit his elder sister in Watts and the city in which he has made his home since 2015. It is my great honor to host this milestone exhibition of Tyler’s work.