2-D art, including painting, photography, etc.
Literary arts, including poetry
Pittsburgh Creative Corps Artist Directory
Tyler M. Watts
Tyler M Watts Art, LLC
Primary Discipline
Artistic Practice
Painting
Bless the Water (Psalm 23), 2024, acrylic, pastel, conte crayon, ink on canvas, 18″ x 24.”
Spiritual Antenna, 2024, acrylic and conte crayon on canvas, 24″ x 30.”
By the Riverside (Psalm 18), 2024, acrylic, spray paint, conte crayon, pastel on canvas, 18″ x 24.”
Heart at Play, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 18″ x 24.”
Rememory, 2024, acrylic, pastel, conte crayon on canvas, 18″ x 24.”
About the Artist
Tyler M. Watts is a Pittsburgh-based contemporary abstract painter creating layered mixed media works that explore memory, movement, and the hidden pathways through which internal experience takes form. Combining architectural structure with intuitive mark making, her paintings use recurring symbols, atmospheric color fields, and gestural linework to examine themes of transmission, containment, emotional release, and the tension between material structure and intangible experience.
Working in acrylic, spray paint, pastel, and conte crayon, Watts approaches each canvas as both a constructed space and an active record of internal experience. Influenced by her background in civil engineering, she is drawn to the relationship between order and improvisation—building compositions that feel at once structured, introspective, and open to interpretation.
Her recent exhibitions include Being/Seen at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center and Fruits of Seeing at the Sweetwater Center for the Arts. Her permanent installation, Nourishment, is currently on view at Soil Sisters.
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Provides Fabrication Services to Other Artists
No
Teaching Artist
No
Joined the Directory
May 2026
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PROJECT
Pittsburgh Creative Corps
Designed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pittsburgh Creative Corps initiative engages artists and creative workers to activate the public realm while providing economic opportunity.
“Art is a connector, with collaboration as a pathway for multiple groups to listen and hear one another's needs and to build bonds rooted in trust and love.”
Tyler M. Watts
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PROJECT
Pittsburgh Creative Corps
Designed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pittsburgh Creative Corps initiative engages artists and creative workers to activate the public realm while providing economic opportunity.
