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Blum & Poe : Tim Hawkinson - 22 May 2010 to 26 June 2010 Current Exhibition |
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Tim Hawkinson, Bike, 2010
Collaged inkjet prints on mounted on panel 120 x 90 inches |
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BLUM & POE Is Pleased to Announce Tim Hawkinson May 22 - June 26, 2010 Opening reception Saturday, May 22, 2010 6-8pm Blum & Poe is pleased to announce our first solo exhibition of new work by Tim Hawkinson. Tim Hawkinson�s practice is known for its sprawling, surrealistic self-portraiture in which the body, through intense introspection, becomes an alien landscape open to radical redefinition and transformation. This artistic agenda is mirrored materially by Hawkinson�s use of familiar and ubiquitous consumer packaging and household objects in highly unconventional ways. The new work continues these refrains, while also exploring more pointedly, temporality, mortality, and the cyclic. Hawkinson works in a wide array of media involving sculpture, painting, photography, and installation. The exhibition reflects this range, with such pieces as Orrery, a towering eight-foot tall sculpture of a woman at a spinning wheel atop a platform of rotating concentric circle tire treads. This piece looks to mechanical models used to illustrate the motions of the planets and their moons in our solar system. A sculptural collage of water bottles, plastic shopping bags, recouped hardware, and odds and ends comprise the woman�s head, hands, eyes, ears, and spindle; every part of the piece is interconnected and eternally spinning. Even the pattern of her dress creates the illusion of motion with its �Rotating Snakes� pattern designed by Kitaoka Akiyoshi. Wheels upon wheels, this hyperkinetic sculpture resembles a Whirling Dervish, a hypnotic mystical dancer forever circling and cycling between the material world and the cosmic. A companion sculpture, Candle, takes the form of a giant foam candle, nearly eight feet tall. The dramatic scale propels this domestic object into a caustic landscape and volcanic totem. A central wick appears to erupt in flames, sending a cascade of Hawkinson�s cast heels and toes down the side in a revolving wax waterfall. A small door on the side of the candle reveals a chamber lined with an emergency blanket that bathes the handcrafted motor in an orange glow, evoking Earth�s fiery recycling processes. The burning candle also references 17th century vanitas paintings and their reflection on mortality. In a large collage, Bike, Hawkinson assembles self-portrait photos printed in the negative to build a fleshy and precarious motorcycle. Hawkinson is suspended across an empty backdrop, his body reconfigured such that arms and legs become handles and spokes, and fingers, braided and multiplied, become tires. Eerie structural correspondences and analogous traits between the body�s composition, its locomotion, its internal cycles, and mass-produced two-wheeled motor vehicles give way to a sense of the �self� as �other�, a subject that is explored throughout Hawkinson�s practice. Tim Hawkinson has exhibited widely internationally since 1981. He is been the subject of over forty solo exhibitions, a selection of which includes: Tim Hawkinson: Mapping the Marvelous, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (2007-2008); Zoopsia: New Works by Tim Hawkinson, The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2007); Tim Hawkinson, Whitney Museum, New York, NY and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA (2005); Directions: Tim Hawkinson, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (2001); and �berorgan, Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA (2000-2001). Hawkinson�s work can be found in several public collections, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Indianapolis Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum, New York. In 2002, The Stuart Collection commissioned a 24-foot, sculpture constructed from eight granite boulders forming a teddy bear. Bear is permanently on view on the campus of the University of California, San Diego. Tim Hawkinson received his M.F.A. from UCLA and lives and works in Los Angeles. TIM HAWKINSON Selected Biography Born San Francisco, California, 1960 Education University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, M.F.A., 1989 San Jose State University, San Jose, California, B.F.A., 1984 Selected One-Person Exhibitions 2009 PaceWildenstein, New York, NY 2008 Tim Hawkinson, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand 2007-2008 Tim Hawkinson: Mapping the Marvelous, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (cat) 2007 Zoopsia: New Works by Tim Hawkinson, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA Tim Hawkinson, Nyehaus, New York, NY (cat) Tim Hawkinson: How Man is Knit, PaceWildenstein, New York, NY (cat) 2005 Tim Hawkinson, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (cat) Tim Hawkinson, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA An Empty Space: Tim Hawkinson, Akira Ikeda Gallery, New York, NY 2004 Tim Hawkinson, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Berlin, Germany 2002 �berorgan, Ace Gallery, New York, NY 2001 Directions: Tim Hawkinson, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. 2000-2001 �berorgan, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA (cat) 2000 Tim Hawkinson, Miyake Design Studio, Tokyo, Japan Tim Hawkinson: New Work, White Cube, London, UK (cat) Pentecost, Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA Tim Hawkinson, Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada (cat) 1999 Tim Hawkinson: Art of the Machine, Ace Gallery, New York, NY Tim Hawkinson: New Works, Akira Ikeda Gallery, AIG Exhibition/Taura, Japan (cat) 1998 Pneumatic Quilt (collaboration with Issey Miyake), Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA 1996 � 1997 Humongolous: Sculpture and Other Works by Tim Hawkinson, organized by The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH. Traveled to: Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio, August 24 � October 27; Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, September 6 � October 27; The Arnoff Center for the Arts, Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery, Cincinatti (concurrent exhibition with The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinatti), November 9 � January 12, 1997; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, January 25-March 30, 1997; and John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, 1997 (cat) Secret Sync, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA. Traveled to Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA 1996 Hawkinson: Ali Ikmnostw, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA (cat) Tim Hawkinson, Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA 1995 Tim Hawksinson, Ace Gallery, New York, NY 1994 Tim Hawkinson, Guggenheim Art Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA (cat) 1993 Tim Hawkinson, Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA 1991 Tim Hawkinson, Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden (cat) 1990 Tim Hawkinson, Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA 1988 Tim Hawkinson: Objects, Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA 1985 Tim Hawkinson, Brunswick Gallery, Missoula, Montana 1984 Tim Hawkinson, Gallery 6, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA 1982 Tim Hawkinson, Freight Door Gallery, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA 1981 Tim Hawkinson, Carlson Tower Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Selected Group Exhibitions 2008 A Human Impulse: Figuration from the Diane and Sandy Besser Collection, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ XXIc: Exhibition 3 �XXIst Century Man�, The Miyake Foundation, 21_21 Design Sight, Tokyo The Way Things Go, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY 2007- 2008 Fractured Figure: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece 2007 Not For Sale, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Islang City, NY Light Time and Three Dimensions, PaceWildenstein, New York, NY Ensemble, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Skin of/in Contemporary Art, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan (cat) 2006 EgoMANIA, Galleria Civica di Modena, Italy Heads, Pescali & Sprovieri, London, UK Swell, The New York Center for Art and Media Studies, New York, NY 2005 Material Matters, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (cat) Logical Conclusions: 40 Years of Rule-Based Art, PaceWildenstein, New York, NY (cat) Laguna�s Hidden Treasures: Art from Private Collections, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA A.B. Normal, Nyehaus, New York, NY Summer Group Show, PaceWildenstein, New York, NY 2003 We Are Electric, Deitch Projects, New York NY 2002 � 2003 Fantasy Underfoot: The 47th Biennial Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. (cat) 2002 2002 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (cat) 2001 � 2002 Chain Reaction: Rube Goldberg and Contemporary Art, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA. Traveled to Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY January 26 � April 14 (cat) 2001 Un Art Populaire, Foundation Cartier Pour L�Art Contemporain, Paris, France Clenchclutchflinch, Paul Rodgers/9W, New York, NY (cat) The Americans: New Art, Barbican Gallery, London, UK (cat) 2000 American Bricolage, Sperone Westerwater, New York, NY (cat) Arte Americana, Ultimo Decennio, Ravenna, Italy The Greenhouse Effect, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK Hand-Made in the USA, Sprovieri Gallery, London, UK 1999 Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Persona, Galerie Carousel, Paris, France Zero-G: When Gravity Becomes Form, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, CT (cat) 48th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (cat) Dreaming III: Contemporary American Art and Old Japanese Ceramics, Akira Aikeda Gallery, New York, NY Head to Toe: Impressing the Body, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA (cat) 1998-1999 Issey Miyake: Making Things, Foundation Cartier Pour L�Art Contemporain, Paris, France 1998 Deep Thought, Basilico Fine Art, New York, NY �tre Nature, Fondation Cartier Pour L�Art Contemporain, Paris, France 1997-1998 Identity Crisis: Self-Portraiture at the End of the Century, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI. Traveled to Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO December 18, 1997- Februrary 15, 1998 (cat) 1997 Yard Sale, Special K Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA Voorzaal und Achterzaal, W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 1996-1997 The Scream: Borealis 8, Arkem Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Germany (cat) 1996 Be Specific, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA The Empowered Object, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA First Person, Marc Foxx Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Narcissism: Artists Reflect Themselves, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA (cat) Shirts and Skins: Absence/Presence in Contemporary Art, The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, HI 1995 Beyond 15 Minutes, Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA (cat) California in Three Dimensions, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA (cat) Veered Science, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA (cat) 1994-1995 In the Black, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA (cat) 1994 Current Abstractions, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Artpark Hooked on a Feeling, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA This is My Body, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seatlle, WA 1992 Imperfect Order, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA 1991 Evocative Objects, California State University, Los Angeles, CA 1990 Lead & Wax, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1989 Modern Objects, Richard/Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Self Evidence, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA 1988 Excavations, Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, CA Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY Profound Visions, Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA 1987 Livestock, Los Angeles, CA Two person Exhibition, Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA Young American Artists V, Mandeville Gallery, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA 1986 Abstract Dimensional Painting, Richard Art Center, Richmond, VA All-California 86: On a Small Scale, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA 1985 Coming Attractions, San Jose Institute of Art, San Jose, CA New Art in the West, Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA Paint in Space, Main Gallery, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA 1984 Painted, Tinted, Tainted Sculpture, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA 1983 Painted Constructions, Main Gallery, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA Media(selected) 2003 Art 21- Art in the Twenty-First Century. Program no. 7, premiered 10 September 2003 by PBD. Produced by Catherine Tatgne Public Collections (selected) Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport, CA Stuart Collection, University of California at San Diego, CA UBS Art Collection, New York, NY Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA |
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