Tim Gardner
L.A. Night Scene
Lot Closed
September 29, 02:09 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 24,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Tim Gardner
b. 1973
L.A. Night Scene
Signed and dated 2012, verso,
watercolor on paper
14 1/2 by 17 1/4 in. (36.83 by 43.82 cm.)
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Courtesy of the artist and 303 Gallery, New York
Tim Gardner’s watercolors, pastels, and oil paintings have explored a specifically North American middle-class world of masculinity and the pictorial conventions used to document it since the 1990s. His early source material is comprised of photographic snapshots, either found or taken by the artist, that capture the rites of passage in which his subjects partake. In the years since, Gardner’s work has rekindled the aesthetics of Romanticism, depicting his subjects engaged with the natural and urban environment. Nocturnal scenes influenced by Japanese woodblock prints further explore the identity of his figures amid the at once sobering and sublime urban landscapes he depicts.
Gardner’s work has been included in exhibitions at Kunsthalle Basel, Basel; the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others.