Tim Pickerill's Page

Website

www.pickerillpainting.com

Relationship status

single

College / University

California State University San Francisco, anthropology (video) / art (media)

Member type

Artist

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

Installation, Painting, Performance, Photography, Video

I am...

...looking for collaborators in noise projects, video and performance work.

...In need a better job, something arty...

I NEED WINDOWS... seriously I don't have windows
I live in a cave like a hermit

I meditate when I sleep and when I walk (Diamond Mind, ngondro)... tantric... Tulku...

I am a lucid dreamer (sometimes that is really too much, like last night, I lie there awake and yet not, in a dream of daemons and wolves on the Hungarian plains with peasants who wont talk about the mysterious black monolithic building that sits like a curse or a warning to the living and the dead.)

myspace.com/omen_project

About my artwork

Take it or leave it...

www.omenproject.com
www.pickerillpainting.com

Bio
Mr Pickerill is a poet and multi media performance artist. Since 1997 he has been developing the Omen Project an ongoing series of performances, photography, video and installations. This project was inspired by the themes in the Iliad and the Odyssey, and Romeo and Juliet; the primacy of personal love over societal conflict and control. Mr Pickerill lives and works in Brooklyn NY.

Statement
My artwork is a response and witness to the wars and violence of mankind. Fundamental to my work is my belief that we are essentially schizophrenic as a culture. In general the culture at large has seen itself as being separate from nature, even superior, separate from 'God' and thus inferior. As in the Iliad, the Odyssey and Romeo and Juliet the cultural arbiters have posited that man and specifically men are the lords of the earth with the rights of profit that this supposed ownership affords. Murder and theft are deemed the rights of power held by a few who see the rest as 'others' devoid of rights or sovereignty. Love is the folly of youth and subservient to power and the family/culture. In both this leads only to tragedy and loss of life. The destruction meted on others ultimately brings tragedy back on the houses of these lords of power. The only way out is for the hero to humble himself (king becomes 'no one,' Nemo, thus all) before nature/god and return to the one he himself truly loves.

Artists I like

Gunter Brus, Gehard Richter, Mike Kelly, Pipilotti Rist, Paul McCarthey, Antonin Artaud, Francis Bacon, Edvard Munch, Marlene Dumas, Duchamp, Damien Hirst, the Chapman Brothers, Andy Warhol, Chloe Piene, Herman Nietch, Terence Koh, Matthew Barney, David Lynch, Pier Paolo Passolini, Godard, Bella Tarr, Antonioni, Francois Truffaut, Sergei Eisenstien, Gus Van Sant, Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Stanley Kubrik, Richard Linklater, Werner Herzog, Andre Tarkovski, etc

If you don't know about in you should
on line archive of art video and other weird stuff
http://www.ubu.com/

Interests

art, cinema, moonshine, sex, 420, fast cars, space ships... oh and black haired leather clad girls with tattoos and lots of attitude...

Hillary/Obama '08

down with the vile Emperor...

What exhibitions are good at the moment?

its too hot for anything that's not under water...

The centre of the artworld is

my studio

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