Timothy Tompkins - Super Colliders

Super Colliders installation at DCKT Contemporary - January 2014

DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present Super Colliders, recent paintings by Timothy Tompkins. The glossy enamel paintings on aluminum depict abstracted images of the internal components of the Large Hadron Collider, which lies in a tunnel seventeen miles in circumference deep beneath the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland. Tompkins’s otherworldly paintings reference the line and symmetry of Gothic rose windows of European cathedrals.

Rose windows functioned as microcosmic depictions of universal order where the uniform geometry of the subdivided circle denoted sacred unity. Similarly, the inherent harmony of structure of the Large Hadron Collider inspires modern curiosity and ruminations on the universal makeup of things, connecting perceived relationships between contemporary theories of physics with timeless concepts of the human condition and spirituality.

The inspirations for Tompkins’s paintings stem from his engagement with the tropes and language of the medium’s history. Tompkins’s interest in both the language of painting and contemporary theories of

visual culture attract him to what he interprets in the images as a loose visual connection to painting’s history and the medium’s influence as a visual communicator. The paintings play upon the idea of revealing the unseen and invoke the notion of a disjunctive relationship between observation, representation and interpretation.

Timothy Tompkins received his BFA from the Otis College of Art & Design (Los Angeles, CA) in 2003. His work is included in the collections of the Fondazione Benetton (Treviso, Italy), Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation (Los Angeles, CA), West Collection (Oaks, PA) and Harvard Business School (Cambridge, MA). Solo exhibitions include the Manhattan Beach Creative Arts Center (CA), Studio La Citta (Verona, Italy) and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Project (CA).

Group exhibitions include Fondazione Querini Stampalia (Venice, Italy), Santa Monica Museum of Art (CA), Laguna Art Museum, (Laguna Beach, CA) and Contemporary Art Center (New Orleans, LA).

Super Collider v.7 2014 Commercial enamel on aluminum 48 x 48 in.

Super Collider v.9 2013 Commercial enamel on aluminum 80 x 60 in.

Super Collider v. 10 2013 Commercial enamel on aluminum 38 x 60 in.

Super Collider v.11 2013 Commercial enamel on aluminum 45 x 60 in.

Super Collider v.12 2013 Commercial enamel on aluminum 96 x 144 in. (triptych)

Super Collider v. 13 2014 Commercial enamel on aluminum 45 x 60 in.

Super Collider v. 14 2013 Commercial enamel on aluminum 48 x 48 in.

Super Collider v. 17 2014 Commercial enamel on aluminum 43 x 60 in.

TIMOTHY TOMPKINS Education: 2003 Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA. Solo exhibitions: 2014 Super Colliders, DCKT Contemporary, New York 2013 Super Collider+10, Manhattan Beach Art Center,

Manhattan Beach, CA

Timothy Tompkins, Texas Contemporary, Houston,TX

(organized by DCKT Contemporary)

Timothy Tompkins, VOLTA NY, New York, NY

(organized by DCKT Contemporary) 2012 Capriccios, Heather James Fine Art, Jackson, WY 2011 New Paintings, DCKT Contemporary, New York 2009 You Want What You Can Not Have, solo painting installation,

Art Brussels 27 (organized by Studio la Città, Verona, Italy)

Paintings, Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA

Timothy Tompkins and Morandi: After Still Life, MLB Gallery,

Ferrara, Italy

Temporal Arcadia, Studio la Città, Verona, Italy

Painting Selections, 101 California Street, San Francisco, CA 2008 New Paintings, DCKT Contemporary, New York 2007 Left Overs, Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles Projects, L.A.

Left Overs, La Nuova Pesa, Centro per L’Arte Contemporanea,

Rome, Italy 2006 Left Overs, Studio la Città, Verona, Italy 2005 pow-er, Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles Projects, L.A.

Manifest Destiny, DCKT Contemporary, New York 2004 New Paintings, DCKT Contemporary, New York 2003 New Paintings, Creative Artists Agency, Beverly Hills Group exhibitions: 2013 2011

Imago Mundi, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy Forces of Nature: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, Louisiana Art and Science Museum, Baton Rouge, LA Non Facit Saltus, painting installation, Art Cologne (organized

by Studio la Città, Verona, Italy) INCOGNITO, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA Elements of Nature, Brevard Art Museum, Melbourne, FL

2010 OsCene, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA

Photos and Phantasy: Selections from the Frederick R.

Weisman Art Foundation, Beverly Hills Municipal Gallery,

Beverly Hills, CA INCOGNITO, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA

Forest for the Trees, Heather James Fine Art, Jackson, WY

Elements of Nature, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA 2009 Open Mind(s), Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy

Contemporary Exoticism, Studio la Città, Verona, Italy

Rogue Wave Massa, Margini Arte Contemporanea, Massa,

Italy (organized by L.A. Louver, Venice, CA) 2008 Nature Morte, Rohrer Gallery, Laguna Beach CA

Photos and Phantasy: Selections from the Frederick R.

Weisman Art Foundation, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard CA 2007 California Art: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art

Foundation, American Jewish University, Los Angeles

Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Walter Maciel Gallery, L.A.

Rogue Wave ’07, L.A. Louver, Los Angeles

The Eclectic Eye: Selections of Fantasy and Illusion from the

Frederick R Weisman Art Foundation, Contemporary Art

Center, New Orleans.

2006 New Code, Studio la Città, Verona, Italy

Otis: Nine Decades of Los Angeles Art, Los Angeles

Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles 2005 Natural Selection, Davidson Galleries, Seattle

Welcome 2 the Jungle, DCKT Contemporary, New York

U.S. Pavilion, WorldExpo, Aichi, Japan

Crude Oil Paintings, Akus Gallery, Eastern Connecticut

State University 2004 Crude Oil Paintings, White Columns, New York

New American Talent 18, curated by D. Molon, Arlington Art

Museum, Arlington

-scopeCircle Emerging Artists Exhibition, Christie’s, Beverly

Hills, CA

Gio Ponti: Furnished Settings and Figuration, ACME, L.A.

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Baby, Western Project, Los Angeles 2003 SIGGRAPH Traveling Art Exhibition, Cleveland Museum of

Art, Cleveland, OH

SIGGRAPH, San Diego, CA

New American Talent 18, curated by D. Molon, Jones Center

for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX

2002 Wild West, 4F Gallery, Los Angeles

MAKING, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

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