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 from Flaunt Magazine January 2010
Tim Kent is a representational painter. He received his Bachelor degree in
Fine Art and Art History from Hunter College, New York City, in 2001 and
completed his MA in Visual Culture at the University of Sussex at West
Dean College (UK) in 2005. He gained a distinction for his work, as well as
being awarded the Vice Chancellors Award for Excellence for his thesis. He
helped organize TAG Projects, from 2002-2004, working with the artist-run
collective that took over large spaces and set up public art events. In
2005, he began working with artist Pippa Blake on the Flux Project which
centered on a three month residency at Moncrieff- Bray Gallery (UK). This
was followed by two solo shows in England, the first at Queen Street
Gallery in 2006 and then again with Moncrieff-Bray in 2007, both of which
met with commercial success. Since 2007, he has worked on private and
public pieces with the designers Miles Redd, Hugo Boss, Max Mara and
most recently Levi's Jeans. His most recent solo show "All That is Solid
Melts Into The Air" was held Factory Fresh in Brooklyn, NY.
In 2010, he exhibited in two Brooklyn-based venues in the Spring: the
FIT "Stand Clear of the Closing Doors" show, and the Centotto Gallery’
“Hinterlands and Hegemon” show. He will be exhibiting at Factory Fresh in
a show entitled “Among Darkened Woods” in the summer, and moving
his most recent figurative and interior works, in the autumn, to a London
exhibit with Moncrieff-Bray.
Because an education in perspective can change an artist's work, he
continues to lecture and teach in the United States and the United
Kingdom on the significance of establishing a primary context. Currently,
Kent is the painting instructor at 3rd Ward Artists Facility in Brooklyn and
instructs a class entitled The Realm of the Figure at the Teaching Studios
of Art in Brooklyn.
Artist Statement
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
Oscar De La Renta
Edward James Foundation
Uppark Collection
Parham Park Collection
City University of New York
Hugo Boss
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
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 from Flaunt Magazine January 2010
Tim Kent is a representational painter. He received his Bachelor degree in
Fine Art and Art History from Hunter College, New York City, in 2001 and
completed his MA in Visual Culture at the University of Sussex at West
Dean College (UK) in 2005. He gained a distinction for his work, as well as
being awarded the Vice Chancellors Award for Excellence for his thesis. He
helped organize TAG Projects, from 2002-2004, working with the artist-run
collective that took over large spaces and set up public art events. In
2005, he began working with artist Pippa Blake on the Flux Project which
centered on a three month residency at Moncrieff- Bray Gallery (UK). This
was followed by two solo shows in England, the first at Queen Street
Gallery in 2006 and then again with Moncrieff-Bray in 2007, both of which
met with commercial success. Since 2007, he has worked on private and
public pieces with the designers Miles Redd, Hugo Boss, Max Mara and
most recently Levi's Jeans. His most recent solo show "All That is Solid
Melts Into The Air" was held Factory Fresh in Brooklyn, NY.
In 2010, he exhibited in two Brooklyn-based venues in the Spring: the
FIT "Stand Clear of the Closing Doors" show, and the Centotto Gallery’
“Hinterlands and Hegemon” show. He will be exhibiting at Factory Fresh in
a show entitled “Among Darkened Woods” in the summer, and moving
his most recent figurative and interior works, in the autumn, to a London
exhibit with Moncrieff-Bray.
Because an education in perspective can change an artist's work, he
continues to lecture and teach in the United States and the United
Kingdom on the significance of establishing a primary context. Currently,
Kent is the painting instructor at 3rd Ward Artists Facility in Brooklyn and
instructs a class entitled The Realm of the Figure at the Teaching Studios
of Art in Brooklyn.
Artist Statement
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
Oscar De La Renta
Edward James Foundation
Uppark Collection
Parham Park Collection
City University of New York
Hugo Boss
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
