Artist Statement
We, in a sense, supply our own absence when we begin to look into these
interiors, as if we were figures of the paintings themselves. The interior space
both informs and reflects the imperfect primal warbling of our own
consciousness and projections, our intimations of our limits and our transience.
~Interview with R.J. Maitlin in Flaunt Magazine January 2010
I am a semantic voyeur of people and a manic semiologist of things,
interested in the nature of people behind closed doors and the private
interiors where they consume those lives. I often use figures as visual
cues to characterize the complex of emotional states that a person
experiences alone or in relationship with another. When there are no
figures present the focus becomes the value of objects, whether
sentimental or crass, by which people surround and inevitably define
themselves. I am interested in the play of signifiers. The spectator can
see my paintings as frozen moments from a play or a film, looking onto
little stages of time and space within which I depict the issues that
continue to fascinate me as an artist, a man, a citizen, a sign.
~ Tim Kent, May 2010
Notable Collections:
The Duke of Buccleuch and Queensbury
Oscar De La Renta
Edward James Foundation
Uppark Collection
Parham Park Collection
City University of New York
Hugo Boss
Levi's Strauss
To read about Tim Kent's interior painting series see Dr. Edward Winters
Aesthetics and Architecture (2007) Continuum Press
To contact please write to
Info@OcularJoyFoundation.com
We, in a sense, supply our own absence when we begin to look into these
interiors, as if we were figures of the paintings themselves. The interior space
both informs and reflects the imperfect primal warbling of our own
consciousness and projections, our intimations of our limits and our transience.
~Interview with R.J. Maitlin in Flaunt Magazine January 2010
I am a semantic voyeur of people and a manic semiologist of things,
interested in the nature of people behind closed doors and the private
interiors where they consume those lives. I often use figures as visual
cues to characterize the complex of emotional states that a person
experiences alone or in relationship with another. When there are no
figures present the focus becomes the value of objects, whether
sentimental or crass, by which people surround and inevitably define
themselves. I am interested in the play of signifiers. The spectator can
see my paintings as frozen moments from a play or a film, looking onto
little stages of time and space within which I depict the issues that
continue to fascinate me as an artist, a man, a citizen, a sign.
~ Tim Kent, May 2010
Notable Collections:
The Duke of Buccleuch and Queensbury
Oscar De La Renta
Edward James Foundation
Uppark Collection
Parham Park Collection
City University of New York
Hugo Boss
Levi's Strauss
To read about Tim Kent's interior painting series see Dr. Edward Winters
Aesthetics and Architecture (2007) Continuum Press
To contact please write to
Info@OcularJoyFoundation.com
