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Tim Bavington

Name: Tim Bavington
Author: Dave Hickey, Simon Johnston
ISBN: 9783865212856

by Dave Hickey, Simon Johnston

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Overview

"Working within the strict format of the vertical stripe, Tim Bavington explores methods of designing his paintings, from intuition and chance to architectural systems and bar-coding. In recent years his interest has turned to music: He transposes samples--riffs, guitar solos and entire songs--into stripes by combining the 12-tone musical scale with a 12-hue color palette. Notes are assigned colors, and the length each note is held determines stripe widths. He then uses a spray gun to apply paint so that lines blend, bleed and fuse into a continuous field. Tim Bavington surveys the development of his stripe work over eight years, with particular attention to the musical period that opened in 2002.

About the Author, Dave Hickey, Simon Johnston

Tim Bavington was born in Norwich, England, in 1966. He moved to the United States in 1984 and attended Art Center College of Design, in Pasadena, California. After moving to Las Vegas in 1993, he received an M.F.A. degree from the University of Nevada, where he studied with art critic and curator Dave Hickey. Bavington's paintings are included in a number of important collections such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego; The Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Dave Hickey has written for most major American cultural publications. Formerly executive editor at Art in America, Hickey's publications include Prior Convictions (1989), The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty (1993), and Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy (1997). Hickey received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism in 1994. He is currently associate professor of art criticism and theory at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.