Tyler Shields Flip For Sale

About this work

Flip (2021) is a digital C-print by Tyler Shields, issued as an edition of 3 and available in four sizes from 18 × 18 to 60 × 60 inches. The title evokes a gesture of spontaneous beauty—the flipping of hair, the turn of a body—that Shields transforms, through his characteristic command of light and composition, into an image of enduring visual power and formal precision. Shields has always been drawn to gestures containing within them both movement and stillness—moments caught between one state and another, in which the body is in transition and the photograph preserves that transition with complete fidelity. Flip is an especially pure expression of this fascination, an image in which the suggestion of motion is frozen with such precision that it generates a productive tension between the kinetic and the static, sustaining the viewer's attention across repeated viewings. The square format available at all four sizes gives the image an additional quality of containment that heightens rather than limits its energy. Flip is a characteristically assured work from Shields' highly productive 2021 period—a year in which the artist created some of the most celebrated images of his recent practice. For collectors seeking works that demonstrate Shields' mastery of gesture and movement as photographic subjects, it is a compelling and rewarding acquisition: simple in concept, formidable in execution. The digital C-print process produces images of exceptional tonal range, color accuracy, and long-term archival stability, ensuring that the work retains its full visual impact for decades to come.