 Little by Little, 2007 Acrylic on canvas, 96 x 192 inches Tim Bavington Jack Shainman is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by British-born, Las Vegas-based artist Tim Bavington. Later this year, Bavington will be the subject of a solo exhibition entitled "Diaspora" at the Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV. He has participated in numerous group shows, including "Extreme Abstraction", Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (2005); "Specific Objects: The Minimalist Influence", Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA (2004); "New in Town", Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR (2002); "Neo Painting", Young Eun Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwangu-City, Korea (2002); "The Magic Hour: Die Konvergenz von Kunst und Las Vegas"; and "Ultralounge", Nevada Institute of Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, NV, curated by Dave Hickey. This will be Bavington's second solo exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery and will include several new, large-scale canvases. In his vertically-striped, airbrushed polymer paintings, Tim Bavington creates rhythmic visual systems by assigning colors to texts and musical arrangements. Around 2002, when he first applied what he refers to as "theories of proportional harmony" to his painting practice, Bavington began translating guitar riffs into mathematically-proportioned bars, varying in widths and colors to represent audible shifts and durations. Past works borrowed titles from classic rock songs and albums. In those paintings, as well as in his new works, he also toys with proportions, often juxtaposing the verticality of the composition with elongated horizontal canvases. The results are paintings that function as recordings - schematics of events or experiences depicted as deceptively simple "footprints," and leaving much to the imagination. Unexpectedly, Bavington's stripes meet with subtle transitions rather than sharp, masked edges. Citing such influences as the desert landscape of the West, neon signage, and optical paintings of the 1960s and 70s, Bavington reinvents a language typically associated with hard-edged abstraction. His electric color combinations, at times interrupted by near-caustic strips of contrasting hues, are indicators of speed and temperature as well as symbols of sound. Because, a 2007 canvas measuring 60 x 144 inches, begins (if one chooses to "read" the canvas from left to right) with a sequence of blues, greens, pinks, and reds, then is neutralized by a wide band of mustard green. Just to the right of center, an orange, mustard and cream sequence temporarily dominates before the composition dissolves into a broad strip of hot pink at the right edge. "A Perfect Day (in the life)", 2007, a 64-inch square canvas, vibrates in bright red, blue, purple, and green - optically protruding and receding in columns of various widths. In these and in all of the works, Bavington balances a systematic approach with intuitive paint handling, resulting in canvases that bridge the gap between real and synthetic, digital and analog, straight symbol and coded metaphor. Exhibition: March 16 - April 14, 2007 Gallery hours: Tues-Sat 10 am - 6 pm Jack Shainman Gallery 513 West 20th Street USA-New York, NY 10011 Telephone +1 212 645 1701 Fax +1 212 645 83 16 Email info@jackshainman.com www.jackshainman.com |
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