Timothy Hawkesworth Exhibition
Littlejohn Contemporary
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Littlejohn Contemporary presents recent works on paper by Irish-born, U.S.-based Timothy Hawkesworth. The exhibition will be Hawkesworth’s 8th solo show at Littlejohn.
Timothy Hawkesworth has long made disintegration and death the themes of his vigorous, battered, chaotic, yet deeply touching and humanistic works of art. A gifted writer as well as painter, Hawkesworth has written about how he creates his work, often through a difficult and frustrating process of “making and unmaking” an image. His process includes applying thin layers of wax and pigment, as well as burning. In the “unmaking” phase, he makes no attempt to erase a mistake or strive for perfection; rather, he digs deeper, with an ever-increasing urgency, to the very core of memory.
Hawkesworth is fearless, willing to expose his own vulnerability, frailty, and awkwardness; he demands the same of the viewer. There is little in the way of obvious symbolism or reference points to aid in the viewing of his art.
Educated in Trinity College Dublin, Hawkesworth has been exhibiting regularly in the United States and Ireland.
His work has received considerable critical attention and is in many public and private collections, including the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Dublin City Gallery Hugh Lane, Dublin, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He has exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, and the List Visual Arts Center at MIT in Cambridge, MA.
[Image: Timothy Hawkesworth "Going By" (2012) oil, pencil, wax on paper, 39x29 in.]
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Schedule
from October 11, 2012 to November 10, 2012