NYAB Event - Tim Wilson “SOMETHING RATHER THAN NOTHING”

Tim Wilson “SOMETHING RATHER THAN NOTHING”

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SARDINE presents SOMETHING RATHER THAN NOTHING, a solo exhibition by Tim Wilson.

SOMETHING RATHER THAN NOTHING consists of a grouping of Wilson’s recent paintings of small floral still lifes and large-scale abstractions. Do in part to their scale, the all encompassing fields of shifting color gradients in the large works envelop ones body into a center-less universe recalling the well traveled histories of abstraction and the color field. This understanding is then quickly undercut by the inclusion of small deftly rendered flowers that invite an interior contemplation in the even longer western tradition of the nature morte.

“There’s a presence. Something about the physicality of the larger paintings in relation to the body, that when viewing the flowers, raises our attention to the physical impressions of optics. Which then feeds back into an optical reading rather than the initial experiential reading of the larger pieces and so on. Ironically though, this loop somehow feels auditory to me”—Tim Wilson

This heightened sense of awareness is further amplified by the shifting scale of these micro and macro worlds. While there is a cognitive dissonance there that relates to notions of the sublime, here however, the dissonance attempts to be self-corrective—slowing down the viewer to allow a broader reflection on the nature of being.

Tim Wilson was born in Virginia and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Wilson received his BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1993 and his MFA from Yale University in 2013. He has had solo shows with Schroeder Romero and 31 Grand in New York and Bucheon Gallery in San Francisco. This is his first show with SARDINE.