Chris Sharp Gallery Los Angeles

Life partners Tyler Cross and Kyle Lypka make both freestanding and wall-mounted sculptures which are a direct byproduct of their life together in Northern California. The work extends the sensuous line of the body over the rugged, coastal landscape of the Bay Area. Far from parochial, their work’s regional specificity leads to a kind of transcendental universalism. Underlying the formal quality of symmetry of what they produce, which often butterflies or doubles, is a reference to the process of cooperation and concession, the give and take of working with another. For their Statement at Art Basel, CrossLypka will present an entirely new body of work which focuses on the themes of eroticism and self-erasure intrinsic to their practice.

CrossLypka is a collaborative duo consisting of Tyler Cross (b. 1992 in Lancaster, CA) and Kyle Lypka (b. 1987 in Philadelphia, PA); the artists live and work in Oakland, CA. Solo exhibitions include In the opening, Chris Sharp Gallery (2025); 00, april april, Pittsburgh (2025); Tarantula, House of Seiko, San Francisco, CA (2024); Gravity Corner, BlunkSpace, Point Reyes, CA (2022); and I Surrender, pt.2 Gallery, Oakland, CA (2020). Group exhibitions include Object Oriented: Abstraction and Design in the BAMPFA Collection, BAMPFA, Berkeley, CA (2026); Once The Block Is Carved, There Will Be Names, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, BE (2025); KADIST, San Francisco, CA (2024); Anthony Meier, Mill Valley, CA (2023); Marin MoCA, Novato, CA (2022); and Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA (2022). Work by CrossLypka can be found in the public collection of KADIST. They are currently preparing a solo exhibition at Bureau, NY, scheduled to open in the spring of 2026.