TIMOTHY TOMPKINS capriccios
Timothy Tompkins’s paintings and photographs present a re-imagined western landscape inspired by the fantasy landscape paintings of eighteenth century Venetian artist Canaletto. Titled Capriccios, the work is based upon photo studies the artist created over two years of the surrounding western Wyoming topography. Using memory as a foundation, Tompkins reassembles an idealized view based upon elements taken from the various source images to construct a representation of the iconic American landscape, a source of inspiration for artists such as Ansel Adams and Thomas Moran. Tompkins’s work evokes a sense of place by the manipulation of details to bypass what is known into a view of what could be. Executed on linen using high gloss acrylic enamel, the paintings, when viewed from a distance, reflect both physically and metaphorically a relational narrative which, upon closer inspection, dissolves into form and color. Along with the paintings are manipulated photographs saturated with color and hand-painted by the artist to create a sense of the landscape in a state of “becoming,” transitioning into a painted version of itself.
TALL TREES 2012 Acrylic enamel on linen 37 x 48 in.
WILDFLOWER OVERLOOK 2012 Acrylic enamel on linen 20 x 36 in.
TREE IN MEADOW 2012 Acrylic enamel on linen 10 x 18 in.
ROLLING MEADOW 2012 Acrylic enamel on linen 20 x 36 in.
PATH IN FOREST 2012 Acrylic enamel on linen 36 x 48 in.
PAINTED LANDSCAPE v.1 2012 Lightjet print on Fuji Gloss Archive paper and acrylic enamel paint 30 x 40 in.
PAINTED LANDSCAPE v.2 2012 Lightjet print on Fuji Gloss Archive paper and acrylic enamel paint 30 x 40 in.
TIMOTHY TOMPKINS
Education:
2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002
2003 Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA. Solo exhibitions: 2012 Capriccios, Heather James Fine Art, Jackson, WY 2011 New Paintings, DCKT Contemporary, New York 2009 You Want What You Can Not Have, solo painting installation, Art Brussels 27 (organized by Studio la Città, Verona, Italy) Paintings, Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA Timothy Tompkins and Morandi: After Still Life, MLB Gallery, Ferrara, Italy Temporal Arcadia, Studio la Città, Verona, Italy Painting Selections, 101 California Street, San Francisco, CA 2008 New Paintings, DCKT Contemporary, New York 2007 Left Overs, Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles Projects, L.A. Left Overs, La Nuova Pesa, Centro per L’Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy 2006 Left Overs, Studio la Città, Verona, Italy 2005 pow-er, Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles Projects, L.A. Manifest Destiny, DCKT Contemporary, New York 2004 New Paintings, DCKT Contemporary, New York 2003 New Paintings, Creative Artists Agency, Beverly Hills Group exhibitions: 2011 2010
Forces of Nature: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, Louisiana Art and Science Museum, Baton Rouge, LA Non Facit Saltus, painting installation, Art Cologne (organized by Studio la Città, Verona, Italy) INCOGNITO, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA Elements of Nature, Brevard Art Museum, Melbourne, FL OsCene, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA Photos and Phantasy: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Beverly Hills Municipal Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
INCOGNITO, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA Forest for the Trees, Heather James Fine Art, Jackson, WY Elements of Nature, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA Open Mind(s), Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy Contemporary Exoticism, Studio la Città, Verona, Italy Rogue Wave Massa, Margini Arte Contemporanea, Massa, Italy (organized by L.A. Louver, Venice, CA) Nature Morte, Rohrer Gallery, Laguna Beach CA Photos and Phantasy: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard CA California Art: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, American Jewish University, Los Angeles Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Walter Maciel Gallery, L.A. Rogue Wave ’07, L.A. Louver, Los Angeles The Eclectic Eye: Selections of Fantasy and Illusion from the Frederick R Weisman Art Foundation, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans. New Code, Studio la Città, Verona, Italy Otis: Nine Decades of Los Angeles Art, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles Natural Selection, Davidson Galleries, Seattle Welcome 2 the Jungle, DCKT Contemporary, New York U.S. Pavilion, WorldExpo, Aichi, Japan Crude Oil Paintings, Akus Gallery, Eastern Connecticut State University Crude Oil Paintings, White Columns, New York New American Talent 18, curated by D. Molon, Arlington Art Museum, Arlington -scopeCircle Emerging Artists Exhibition, Christie’s, Beverly Hills, CA Gio Ponti: Furnished Settings and Figuration, ACME, L.A. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Baby, Western Project, Los Angeles SIGGRAPH Traveling Art Exhibition, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH SIGGRAPH, San Diego, CA New American Talent 18, curated by D. Molon, Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX Wild West, 4F Gallery, Los Angeles MAKING, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Bibliography: 2011 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003
Meneguzzo, Marco, “Non Facit Saltus”, essay in the catalogue, illustrated pg.9 Borgenicht, Nicole, “Timothy Tompkins”, Art Ltd., May 2009 Borgenicht, Nicole, “Timothy Tompkins”, THE Art Magazine, June 2009 Meneghelli, Luigi, “Temporal Arcadia”, Essay in the catalogue Pozzati, Maura, “Timothy Tompkins and Morandi: After Still LIfe”, Essay in the catalogue Verzotti, Giorgio, “Open Mind(s): collezionismo, comasco nel contemporaneo 1978-2008”, Essay in the catalogue Kolber, Georgina. “The Horizon and the Interstate Sublime,” depARTure, November Brooks, Amira, “Timothy Tompkins”, LA Weekly, August 15 Dambrot, Shana Nys, “Rogue Wave 07”, Art Review,September Knight, Cristopher, “45 Painters Under 45 – They Help Make the L.A. Scene”, Los Angeles Times, December 2, 2007 Knight, Cristopher, “Timothy Tompkins - Glossy still lifes from retail’s rejects”, Los Angeles Times, August 24, 2007 Melrod, George, “Rogue Wave 07”, Art Ltd., September Ollman, Leah, “The Good Type of ‘Rogue’”, Los Angeles Times, July 6, 2007 West, Paige, The Art of Buying Art: An Insider’s Guide to Collecting Contemporary Art, Collins Design, New York Meneghelli, Luigi, “Left Overs”, Essay in the catalogue, 2006 P. Frank, “Patrick Wilson, Timothy Tompkins, Chris Sauter”, L.A. Weekly, January 2006 R. Zone, “Timothy Tompkins”, ArtScene, December 2005 Wagonfeld, Judy, “Artists turn the physical into the emotional in ‘Natural Selection’,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 17 E. Sorokina, “Crude Oil Paintings”, essay in the catalogue, D. Molon, “New American Talent”, essay in the catalogue
Public Collections: Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles West Collection, Pennsylvania Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
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