[Timothy C. Tyler]

I don't know the work, but taste has never had much to do with art production.

I personally think that anyone doing anything extremely patriotic that has never done anything like this before is shameful. I see all the more commercially focused artists doing portraits of DC (for the first time) flags are in 1/2 the paintings sold today. That is in bad taste I think. You can't find an SUV that doesn't have a flag glued to it usually with a fish beside it. Those of us who have always owned flags find all these trends a bit suspect. Bandwagon behavior is distasteful to me.

But back to art; good art doesn't have to be shocking and shocking art doesn't have to be good. Most galleries that represent traditional representational art can't get the city paper to mention their exhibits. The shocking galleries get all the free write-ups. Thing is, it's the wild new galleries that still go bankrupt even with the free publicity.