Tim Cox's Page

Relationship status

single, in a relationship

College / University

SFCC

Program / Degree

Fine Art

Member type

Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Conceptual, Painting, Sculpture

I am...

Painting monumental pieces on Tyvek, and casting/fabricating conceptual representational sculpture in aluminum.

About my artwork

Acrylic on Tyvek, I like to play with scale to morph perception, or the idea of perception, of a tangible every day object. Things that are familiar to us, though at the same time distant and alien, unexplained or perhaps just unintelligible.. come to be seen in a new light, sometimes via an abstracted and ambiguous distance to the object.. complication through simplification.

Fabricated or cast aluminum, bringing every day commercial industrial containers out of the peripheral and into the frontal vision. An emphasis on proportion and geometry/architecture through a play on scale.. Attainability through simplification and physical shrinkage; the useful physical space made much, much greater.. mentally and emotionally.

Artists I like

John Boyce, William Kentridge, Jaume Plensa, Olafur Elliason, Jack Slentz, David Linn, Dan Christensen, Chris Crites, Josh Keyes, Tom Sachs, Tom Joyce, Ed Ruscha, James Rosenquist, Roy Lichtenstein, Hopper and Hockney, Mark Di Suvero.

Interests

quality fine are and quality automobiles. the process of fabrication and heavy manufacturing.

Centre of the artworld:

nowhere and everywhere