Tim Hawkinson
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Education
Hawkinson was born in San Francisco, California in 1960.[1] He received a BFA from San Jose State University in 1984, and a MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1989.[2]
Work
Hawkinson′s work is mostly sculptural, ranging in scale from minute to huge. His themes include his own body (although some of his work could be called self portraiture), music, and the passing of time, as well as his artistic engagement with material, technique, and process. Some of his pieces are mechanized (the mechanism usually fully on view), or involve sound.
Hawkinson is renowned for creating complex sculptural systems through surprisingly simple means. His installation “Überorgan”—a stadium-size, fully automated bagpipe—was pieced together from bits of electrical hardware and several miles of inflated plastic sheeting.[3][4] Hawkinson’s fascination with music and notation can also be seen in “Pentecost,” a work in which the artist tuned cardboard tubes and assembled them in the shape of a giant tree. On this tree the artist placed twelve life-size robotic replicas of himself, and programmed them to beat out hymns at humorously irregular intervals.[5] The source of inspiration for many of Hawkinson’s pieces has been the re-imagining of his own body and what it means to make a self-portrait of this new or fictionalized body.[6] In 1997 the artist created an exacting, two-inch tall skeleton of a bird from his own fingernail parings, and later made a feather and egg from his own hair.[7] Believable even at a close distance, these works reveal Hawkinson’s attention to detail as well as his obsession with life, death, and the passage of time.
In 2015, Hawkinson received a Guggenheim Fellowship[8] for fine arts.
Exhibitions
Hawkinson has exhibited at the Venice Biennale (1999), the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, (2000), the Power Plant in Toronto, Canada (2000),[9] the Whitney Biennial (2002),[10] and the 2003 Corcoran Biennial in Washington, D.C.[11]
A 2009 exhibition of new works included sculptures crafted from eggshells and a life-sized motorcycle constructed out of feathers. It was on view from May 8 through July 4, 2009 at The Pace Gallery, New York. Wonzimer Gallery in Los Angeles exhibited Hawkinson in the 2020 show "The Shape of Life."[12]
Permanent collections
His 2005 sculpture Bear is a part of the Stuart Collection of public art on the campus of the University of California San Diego.
Personal life
Hawkinson lives in Los Angeles with his wife, artist Patty Wickman.[13]
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Tim Hawkinson — Art21".
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.John Ackerman (2000). Unnatural Science: An Exhibition, Spring 2000 - Spring 2001, MASS MoCA. MASS MoCA Publications. ISBN 978-0-9700738-1-5.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Emerling, Susan (3 March 2007). "Artist Tim Hawkinson floats an idea at Getty" – via LA Times.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kennedy, Randy (5 March 2007). "Tim Hawkinson - Getty Museum -Art". The New York Times.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kimmelman, Michael (11 February 2005). "Wonderment and Wackiness, With Gravitas". The New York Times.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.SNOW, SHAUNA (22 July 1990). "FACES : Tim Hawkinson--Manipulating Everyday Objects and Notions" – via LA Times.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Directions - Tim Hawkinson" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-10-29.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Tim Hawkinson - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". www.gf.org. Retrieved 2024-05-30.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Dailey, Meghan (May 2000). "Tim Hawkinson at The Power Plant". Artforum. 38 (9). Retrieved 2020-09-25.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Tim Hawkinson". whitney.org. Retrieved 2020-09-25.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.O'Sullivan, Michael (December 27, 2002). "The Corcoran Biennial: Dramatic License". The Washington Post.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Artland - Art by Tim Hawkinson". www.artland.com. Retrieved 2021-04-05.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."'I Don't Want That Crap in My Gallery' | Commonweal Magazine". www.commonwealmagazine.org. 6 March 2017. Retrieved 2020-01-13.
- Lawrence Rinder. 2005, Tim Hawkinson (Whitney Museum of American Art)
External links
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- Biography, interviews, essays, artwork images and video clips from PBS series Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century - Season 2 (2003).
- Doug Harvey's LA Weekly review of Hawkinson's Mid-Career Survey
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