NYAB Event - Tim Bavington Exhibition

Tim Bavington Exhibition

Jack Shainman Gallery (524 W 24th St)

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Jack Shainman Gallery presents New Paintings, Tim Bavington’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. With this exhibition, Bavington continues to translate music into exuberant patterns and color fields that emote a vibrancy and electricity through the precisely painted synthetic polymer atop canvas. Each piece is an evocation of a song’s bridge, melody, a section of notes, systematically reinterpreted for the eye resulting in a vivid synesthesia of the senses.

Marking a new direction in Bavington’s oeuvre, Quadrophenia moves the more classical and strictly vertical and horizontal lines into an intense swirl of brilliant blues, magentas, greens and yellows. Bavington creates a visceral and emotional reverberation using The Who’s operatic album as a departure point and what results is an almost hypnotic optical experience that references the four-point structure of quadraphonic audio.

The overlapping influences of music and art in Bavington’s work results in energetic canvases which connect compositional concepts between supposedly disparate disciplines while allowing for the influences of color field and optical painting from the 1960’s and 1970’s to peek through. The structured, defined lines suggest a strict approach, but simultaneously Bavington’s work signifies a looseness and freedom which emanate from the music he chooses as the work’s core inspiration. David Hickey writes, “Their renewal, refurbishment, and re-conceptualization of a traditional modernist painting format (the stripe), makes them seem at once joltingly new and unceasingly familiar”. His systemic approach which designates sound to color is not a literal translation but a masterfully intuitive one.

Tim Bavington is a British-born, Las Vegas-based artist. He has participated in numerous national and international solo and group shows. Selected group exhibitions include Seeing Songs, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, 2009; Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California, 2008; California Diaspora at the Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada, curated by Dave Hickey, 2007; Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, 2005; Specific Objects: The Minimalist Influence, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California, 2004; New in Town, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Oregon, 2002; Neo Painting, Young Eun Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwangu-City, Korea, 2002; The Magic Hour: Dir Konvergenz von Kunst Und Las Vegas; and Ultralounge, University of South Florida Art Museum of Contemporary Art, Tampa, Florida, 2000; and DiverseWorks Artspace, Houston, Texas, 1998. His work is included in numerous public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California.

Concurrently on view at 513 West 20th Street is Toyin Odutola: My Country Has No Name, from May 16th through June 29th.