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

2014Commercial enamel on aluminum

48 x 48 in.

Super Collider v.9

2013Commercial enamel on aluminum80 x 60 in.

Super Collider v. 10

2013Commercial enamel on aluminum

38 x 60 in.

Super Collider v.11

2013Commercial enamel on aluminum45 x 60 in.

Super Collider v.12

2013Commercial enamel on aluminum

96 x 144 in. (triptych)

Super Collider v. 13

2014Commercial enamel on aluminum45 x 60 in.

Super Collider v. 14

2013Commercial enamel on aluminum

48 x 48 in.

Super Collider v. 17

2014Commercial enamel on aluminum43 x 60 in.

TIMOTHY TOMPKINSEducation:

2003 Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA.

Solo exhibitions:

2014 Super Colliders, DCKT Contemporary, New York2013 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, WY2011 New Paintings, DCKT Contemporary, New York2009 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, CA2008 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, Italy2006 Left Overs, Studio la Città, Verona, Italy2005 pow-er, Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles Projects, L.A. Manifest Destiny, DCKT Contemporary, New York2004 New Paintings, DCKT Contemporary, New York2003 New Paintings, Creative Artists Agency, Beverly Hills

Group exhibitions:

2013 Imago Mundi, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy2011 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, LA2009 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 CA2007 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 Angeles2005 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 University2004 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 Angeles2003 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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Selected Collections:

Fondazione Benetton, Treviso, ItalyFrederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CASchwartz Art Collection, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MAWest Collection, Oaks, PA

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