As a lifelong resident of Western Massachusetts, Tyler grew up in a small rural community and received an Associate of Fine Arts from Greenfield Community College and a Bachelor of Fine Art from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He then spent a couple years in New York City while earning a Master of Fine Art from the New York Academy of Art. Tenebroso will be his debut Texas solo exhibition.

Chala Janpraphasakul (Jan) is a photographer, an image maker and a computer programmer. Jan was born and raised in Thailand. In 1998 she immigrated to New York, where she learned a new language and pursued higher education. After graduating from Hunter College, New York, in 2004 with a degree in Computer Science, she relocated to Scranton, Pennsylvania; where she presently lives and works. Jan was introduced to photography in her teenage years. She used a Pentax camera, rolls of black and white film, and regularly visited a darkroom to pull prints using a chemical process.