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Tim Davis: I'm Looking Through You

Past exhibition
December 16, 2021 - January 22, 2022
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Tim Davis: I'm Looking Through You

Diane Rosenstein Gallery presents a solo exhibition of photographs and spoken word prose by Tim Davis, an artist, songwriter, and essayist based in Tivoli, New York. The multimedia show opens with a reception for the artist and a music performance by special guests. I’m Looking Through You is an installation that echoes the mood and visual intensity of Davis’ new Aperture monograph, described as an expansive visual poem celebrating the glamorous surface of Los Angeles and its reach. 

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Works
  • Tim Davis Desert House, 2018
    Tim Davis
    Desert House, 2018
  • Tim Davis Double Sunset, 2018
    Tim Davis
    Double Sunset, 2018
  • Tim Davis, Cash Register Mar Vista, 2018
    Tim Davis, Cash Register Mar Vista, 2018
  • Tim Davis Long Hair Downtown, 2018
    Tim Davis
    Long Hair Downtown, 2018
  • Tim Davis Single Greatest Sign in History, 2018
    Tim Davis
    Single Greatest Sign in History, 2018
  • Tim Davis, Chihuahua on Crunk Car, 2018
    Tim Davis, Chihuahua on Crunk Car, 2018
  • Tim Davis, Clown Church, 2018
    Tim Davis, Clown Church, 2018
  • Tim Davis, Father and Son Comfort , 2018
    Tim Davis, Father and Son Comfort , 2018
  • Tim Davis, Foto Studio, 2018
    Tim Davis, Foto Studio, 2018
  • Tim Davis, I Win Photography, 2018
    Tim Davis, I Win Photography, 2018
  • Tim Davis, Car Wash with Pigeons, 2018
    Tim Davis, Car Wash with Pigeons, 2018
  • Tim Davis, Photographer, 2018
    Tim Davis, Photographer, 2018
  • Tim Davis Carrying The Square, 2018
    Tim Davis
    Carrying The Square, 2018
  • Tim Davis Schulman Mantis 1, 2018
    Tim Davis
    Schulman Mantis 1, 2018
  • Tim Davis, Chivas Farm Market Bare Elegance, 2018
    Tim Davis, Chivas Farm Market Bare Elegance, 2018
  • Tim Davis, Jesus Hot Dogs, 2018
    Tim Davis, Jesus Hot Dogs, 2018
  • Tim Davis, Foothills Golf, 2018
    Tim Davis, Foothills Golf, 2018
  • Tim Davis, Department of Water and Power, 2018
    Tim Davis, Department of Water and Power, 2018
  • Tim Davis, Corpse in Car, 2018
    Tim Davis, Corpse in Car, 2018
  • Tim Davis, Pregnant Topanga, 2018
    Tim Davis, Pregnant Topanga, 2018
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  • Tim Davis I M Looking Through You Intallation View 2
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  • Tim Davis I M Looking Through You Intallation View 18
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  • Vogue Italia Interviews Tim Davis

    Rica Cerbarano, VOGUE Italia, October 28, 2021
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  • Tim Davis in Vogue Italia

    Tim Davis in Vogue Italia

    Interview
    PHOTOGRAPHY IS A SERIES OF PROBLEMS TO SOLVE • A CONVERSATION WITH TIM DAVIS As I dive into Tim Davis’ I’m Looking Through You ,...
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Press release

Opening Reception for The Artist: Thursday, December 16, 2021 from 6 - 9 pm

Book Signing: Saturday, December 18, 2021 from 2 - 4 pm

 

Diane Rosenstein Gallery presents a solo exhibition of photographs and spoken word prose by Tim Davis, an artist, songwriter, and essayist based in Tivoli, New York. The multimedia show opens with a reception for the artist and a music performance by special guests. I’m Looking Through You is an installation that echoes the mood and visual intensity of Davis’ new Aperture monograph, described as an expansive visual poem celebrating the glamorous surface of Los Angeles and its reach. 

 

The exhibition presents twenty dye-sublimation prints, and three audio stations where visitors can listen to Davis reading his own essays — which are as dedicated to pleasure as his photographs — that accompany, accent, and accelerate the images he found by walking all over greater L.A.  In her profile of the artist, "Photography Is A Series Of Problems To Solve," Italian curator Rica Cerbarano writes: “Davis' photographs present different types of attractive surfaces—the ones that make us experience the world — of graphic signs, and of faces that are like masks. It is a journey, and like all the journeys, it has a soundtrack.”

 

Tim Davis’ impromptu color photographs of people and street scenes in and around Los Angeles are unlike documentary photography or street photography. They are personal images revealing Southern California culture in a different way. In “Bar Fight As Artist Statement,” he explains, “A photograph is a key, and from it I’m trying to rebuild the ring, the lock, the building, the block and the city.”

For the poster at the entrance of this show, he scrabbled the letters from Single Greatest Sign in History -- a photograph he made of a sign he found in downtown L.A. The poster reflects his depiction of rebuilding stories by drawing elements from what he sees and feels. It is a linguistic interlude, a hint, and a riddle tickling viewers before they walk into the show. From a panoramic view of the exhibition, the projected images, the installation of photographs, wall text and spoken word audio, are composed as a visual allegretto. It has the rhythm of the city - from sunsets to strip malls - to signage and performance.

 

Animating Tim Davis's wry observations and the mesmerizing, color-pop geometry of his images is the photographer and writer’s decades-long, gimlet-eyed meditation on making pictures. In his essay “Hey Look At This,” he observes: "The camera is a machine that sees only surfaces. The world casts its spell, and the camera gobbles up its glamour, uncritically, with pure certainty, assuming there is nothing underneath."

 

Davis’ keenly observational images, interspersed with a selection of his writings on the medium — the joys and pitfalls of camera seeing—solidify I’m Looking Through You as an unabashed celebration of photography.

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