Tyler Capen Ramsey is a Los Angeles–based artist known for his performance art, his "drip painting" of shoes for company Toms Shoes and for painting only with his fingers, rather than with brushes.
Education
Ramsey recently completed a very large commissioned mural that is central to the design of a new building at Oral Roberts University. He also completed a commission to create eight paintings for the United Nations to celebrate their "Millennium Development Goals".
Career
Ramsey is known for having painted 50,000 boutique shoes by hand for Toms Shoes. In 2013, as a piece of performance art, Ramsey lived in a glass box painting and performing for Tom"s Shoes while attempting to break a world record. Also in 2013, Ramsey was part of a plan to rescue human rights and free speech activist, Ali Abdulemam, from captivity in Bahrain.
The plan became public when The Atlantic published an account of the scheme.