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Tim Best
 
 
About the Artist

My experience in life especially in business is not unique. Most people commit their lives to their careers with no time left to commit to other things. I address this situation in my work. I too hold more than one job to maintain a living. My concerns are to address the humanity underlying this situation and to share my experiences in an experimental, surreal, and non-narrative way that remains succinct.

My background is painting so I approach photography from an aesthetic perspective. Although there are transparent materials out there, they tend to be very toxic and I needed them to use a light source from behind the painting instead of in front. So I moved to photography to work with transparencies and to print on translucent materials. To me, the aesthetic of the transparency signifies transcendence. In my works case, it supports the transcendence of adversity.

As a painter I made a lot of paintings. The advantage of this was that I was able to see a development of aesthetics in my paintings. The paintings became records of an expenditure of my energy translated onto the support. Over time, I became interested in documentary photography, but with the emotion integrated into the facts of the situation. I have continued to become more experimental with this and now my work is moving towards documentation of performance or a thought about an event rather than the event itself.

Inspirations:

Robert Longo, Ad Reinhardt, Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, Matthew Barney, Rodney Carswell, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Courtney Egan, Heather Weathers...

 
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Perfect Day #2

2006
Duratran Print from Medium Format E-6
50 X 40

Duratran Print displayed in custom made illuminated display case.

Perfect Day #5

2006
Duratran Print from Medium Format E-6
41 x 41

Duratran Print displayed in custom made illuminated display case.

Evacuee #1

2006
Digital Photograph
80 X 104

Digital C Print face mounted on Plexi glass. Or to customer specification.

Capability Maturity

2005
Digital Photograph
80 X 104

Digital C Print face mounted to Plexi glass. Wood brace with cleat.

untitled (gumball cloud landscape perspective)

2007
Gumballs and Aluminum
180cm x 20cm

untitled (gumball cloud landscape perspective)
this sculpture is meant to be horizontally suspended indoors from the ceiling.

untitled

2007
C print
61 x 76cm

untitled
Plexi facemount with wood brace and cleat.

untitled (man in desert)

2007
C Print
92 x 92cm

Plexi face mount with wood brace and cleat.

untitled

2007
C print
61 x 76cm

untitled
Eyelashes in focus. Plexi face mount with wood brace and cleat.
 
Education and biography
Education:
University of Illinois at Chicago Bachelors of Fine Arts 1995

One Person Shows:

2005 “Business Man”, Apt 3 Gallery, 43 Aspinwall Ave, Brookline, MA
2004 “Recent Works”, ACME Gallery, 5700 Magazine St, New Orleans, LA

Group and Juried Shows:
2006 “The Human Body” – New Orleans Digital Darkroom, Juried by David Houston, Chief
Curator of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, December 2nd to December 31st
2006 “The Virus Show” – The Green Room October 14th to November 14th
2006 “Surge” - The Brooklyn Lyceum, September 16th to November 1st
2006 “Just a Perfect Day, works by Tim Best and Jillienne Buena” – The Big Top Gallery, New Orleans, July 1st to July 31st
2006 “Likeness – Alternative Portraiture” – Barrister’s, New Orleans
2006 “Arty Gras” – The Warehouse, Washington DC
2006 “Sustained Winds” – Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA
2005 “No Place Like Home” – Giola Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005 “All that Art” – 8 New Orleans Artists Showing during Jazz Fest, Fair Grinds Café
New Orleans, LA
2005 “Hydriotaphia – New Orleans Artists Design their Funeral Urns”, Barristers Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2005 “New Art For a New Year”, 18 New Orleans Artists at Ashe Cultural Center, New Orleans, LA
2004 “Mermaid Lounge Closing Bash” – An Evening of performance and Video, Mermaid Lounge, New Orleans, LA
1996 “The Blister Show”, The Center for Short Lived Phenomenon, Chicago, IL

 
Future shows
2008, Show is unnamed at this time. Sponsored by Civilian Art Projects in Washington D.C. and Exhibiting at the Soap Factory in Minneapolis, MN in June 2009.
 
Website:  www.timcbest.com
 
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