Timothy Tompkins: Capriccios at Heather James Fine Art

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Timothy Tompkins’s new paintings and photographs present a re-imagined western landscape inspired by the fantasy landscape paintings of eighteenth century Venetian artist Canaletto. Titled Capriccios, the exhibition is based upon photo studies the artist created over two years of the surrounding western Wyoming topography. Using memory as a foundation, Tompkins reassembles an idealized view based upon elements taken from the various source images to construct a representation of the iconic American landscape, a source of inspiration for artists such as Ansel Adams and Thomas Moran. Tompkins’s work evokes a sense of place by the manipulation of details to bypass what is known into a view of what could be. Executed on linen using high gloss acrylic enamel, the paintings, when viewed from a distance, reflect both physically and metaphorically a relational narrative which, upon closer inspection, dissolves into form and color. Along with the paintings, on exhibit are manipulated photographs saturated with color and hand-painted by the artist to create a sense of the landscape in a state of “becoming,” transitioning into a painted version of itself. Timothy Tompkins received his BFA from Otis College of Art and Design in 2003 and exhibits nationally and internationally. His work is included in the collections of the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, the West Collection, Oaks, PA and Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY; Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy; Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA; Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, and inclusion in the group exhibition Rogue Wave ’07 at LA Louver, Venice, CA.

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