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. 

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.” 

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.