About the artist

Selected for LBIF’s 40 Under 40 (2025)

Ty Le Roux is a multimedia artist whose work remixes reality, exploring surrealism and consciousness through the layered lenses of personal memory, cultural detritus, and subconscious symbolism.

Influenced by creators like David Lynch, Remedios Varo, and William Mortensen, Le Roux embraces the imperfect and the arcane, reaching across mediums to unearth the haunted, the humorous, and the holy. Ty believes that art’s raw edges, gaps in mastery, unexpected glitches, or unnameable texture all carry a humanity that sterile perfection can’t replicate. In an age increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, Ty finds lasting power in the unmistakable fingerprint of the artist: irregular, emotional, and mysterious.

Rather than overwhelm, Ty’s work invites, drawing viewers into dreamlike spaces that feel familiar yet eerily altered. A statue glimpsed six years ago might return in one of Le Roux’s pieces, now whispering a new story. Each work begins not with a plan, but with a feeling - a fleeting image, a concept, a myth in vapor form - and evolves through a process of layering, erasure, and intuitive assembly. The result is often stranger, more revealing, and more alive than what was first imagined.

For example, Toon Purgatory began as a simple idea:

“Long-forgotten cartoon characters, wandering a purgatory void, dreaming of life in the real world.”
What emerged was a meditation on nostalgia, disembodiment, and the myth of lost childhood.

Ultimately, Le Roux’s body of work is a meditation on transformation, memory, and the beauty of the unknown. Ty is grateful for the opportunity to share these inner worlds and hopes that, within them, viewers may stumble upon secret doorways into their own.