Tim Wilson

Tim Wilson (b. 1970, Newport News, Virginia) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He holds an MFA from Yale University School of Art and a BFA from The Virginia Commonwealth University. 

  

Tim Wilson’s work inspires viewers to reflect on the space they take up in the world, as well as the intimacies of the spaces they inhabit. His purposeful use of colour and texture functions as a visual analog to this intention—a discursive mutation of process, driven by the tension between intuition and intentionality. Such stillness gives way to highly mediate pieces of art. There is almost a contradiction between the materiality of painting and the sensory awareness Wilson brings to his work. 

 

He says; “I see painting as a model for those physical conditions governed by natural laws that seemingly give rise to a sense of self and notions of free will. I'm attempting to mimic that unfolding and at the same time, create thought through painting material. In doing so, my work attempts to be what it represents and represents it simultaneously—a sort of onomatopoeia in painting language that seeks to find meaning in nothing… An artist’s single brush stroke contains a multitude of decisions within a microsecond.” 

 

Tim Wilson has been awarded residencies at Offshore Residency, Sol LeWitt Studio, Shandaken Project and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Most recently, his work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Fahrenheit Madrid (Madrid, Spain), Alfred University (Alfred, NY) and Sardine (Brooklyn, NY) among others. He has been included in several group shows, including, JDJ (New York, NY), The Flag Art Foundation (New York, NY), Jack Hanley Gallery (New York, NY), Park Avenue Armory (New York, NY) and Downtown+ (Paris, France). He has co-curated several groups shows, including, Kadel Willborn (New York, NY) .