Brinsley Tyrrell (b.1941)

Most of Brinsley Tyrrell's works for the past ten years have been related to his Public Art projects. “Urban Evidence” is the last exhibit for which he created new work. There were five large works in the exhibit. He was particularly interested in salt. A material we are all familiar with as a crushed up powder, exists below Cleveland as huge deposits of solid rock buried with layers of volcanic ash--the remains of an earlier generation of the Great Lakes. The largest salt mine in North America lies under Downtown Cleveland; normally only crushed salt is brought to the surface. For this exhibition five large blocks of salt were quarried for the artist and were incorporated into the sculpture. Salt of the City is made of two large quarried boulders of salt mounted on top of a sandstone block on a concrete pedestal left for nature to carve. Seven years later she is still carving beautiful spikey forms and depositing brine deposits on the sandstone. Brinsley Tyrrell is an emeritus professor of art at Kent State University . He has had numerous solo exhibitions in Ohio and has been selected for group exhibits in New York and Los Angeles.

This piece can be seen outside of SPACES Gallery on the Superior Viaduct. Can you figure out why it is disappearing fast? New Tyrrell works can be seen along Coventry Rd. embracing the trees.