Tim Hawkinson

Tim Hawkinson
Born 1960
San Francisco

Tim Hawkinson (born 1960) is an artist from the United States of America who mostly works as a sculptor.

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.

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.

Exhibitions

Hawkinson has participated in numerous exhibitions in the United States and abroad, including the Venice Biennale (1999), the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, (2000), the Power Plant in Toronto, Canada (2000), the Whitney Biennial (2002), and the 2003 Corcoran Biennial in Washington, D.C. Tim Hawkinson resides in Los Angeles with his wife.

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 (32 East 57th Street). Hawkinson has been represented by The Pace Gallery since 2005.

Solo exhibitions

  • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. February 11 – May 29, 2005.[8]
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art. June 26 – September 5, 2005.[9][10]
  • J. Paul Getty Museum. March 6, 2007 - September 9, 2007[3][11]
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia. 2008

References

  1. ↑ "Tim Hawkinson — Art21".
  2. ↑ John Ackerman (2000). Unnatural Science: An Exhibition, Spring 2000 - Spring 2001, MASS MoCA. MASS MoCA Publications. ISBN 978-0-9700738-1-5.
  3. 1 2 Emerling, Susan (3 March 2007). "Artist Tim Hawkinson floats an idea at Getty" – via LA Times.
  4. ↑ Kennedy, Randy. "Tim Hawkinson - Getty Museum -Art".
  5. ↑ Kimmelman, Michael. "Wonderment and Wackiness, With Gravitas".
  6. ↑ SNOW, SHAUNA (22 July 1990). "FACES : Tim Hawkinson--Manipulating Everyday Objects and Notions" – via LA Times.
  7. ↑ https://hirshhorn.si.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Tim-Hawkinson-Brochure-Directions.pdf
  8. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20090110185148/http://whitney.org/www/exhibition/feat_hawk.jsp. Archived from the original on January 10, 2009. Retrieved January 17, 2009. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. ↑ Tim Hawkinson—June 26–August 28, 2005 Archived July 6, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.. Lacma.org, retrieved February 20, 2011
  10. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20110721172251/http://x-traonline.org/past_articles.php?articleID=51
  11. ↑ "Tim Hawkinson's Uberorgan (Visit the Getty)". www.getty.edu.
  • Lawrence Rinder. 2005, Tim Hawkinson (Whitney Museum of American Art)
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