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Born 1960 San Francisco, California. Known for: Large-scale installations, whimsical.
Working from a Los Angeles studio, Tim Hawkinson creates conceptual work that includes room-size installations, collages and sculpture and provokes responses from absurd to purely humorous. He makes... Read full biography
Working from a Los Angeles studio, Tim Hawkinson creates conceptual work that includes room-size installations, collages and sculpture and provokes responses from absurd to purely humorous. He makes clocks from Coca-Cola cans or hair brushes or items from a pile of laundry, bird skeletons and nail... Read full biography
Working from a Los Angeles studio, Tim Hawkinson creates conceptual work that includes room-size installations, collages and sculpture and provokes responses from absurd to purely humorous. He makes clocks from Coca-Cola cans or hair brushes or items from a pile of laundry, bird skeletons and nail clippings. One of his pieces, "Ranting Mop Head" (1995) is an upright mop on one side and a machine on the other side that has synthetic voices. When activated, the 'mop head' rants with gibberish.... Read full biography
Working from a Los Angeles studio, Tim Hawkinson creates conceptual work that includes room-size installations, collages and sculpture and provokes responses from absurd to purely humorous. He makes clocks from Coca-Cola cans or hair brushes or items from a pile of laundry, bird skeletons and nail clippings. One of his pieces, "Ranting Mop Head" (1995) is an upright mop on one side and a machine on the other side that has synthetic voices. When activated, the 'mop head' rants with gibberish. Another work, "Uberorgan", is a 12-pipe organ with expanding and contracting balloons that expand and contract with the markings on a 200-foot piano-player-like scroll. In turn, the balloons send air through the pipes, which play hymns, popular music... Read full biography
Working from a Los Angeles studio, Tim Hawkinson creates conceptual work that includes room-size installations, collages and sculpture and provokes responses from absurd to purely humorous. He makes clocks from Coca-Cola cans or hair brushes or items from a pile of laundry, bird skeletons and nail clippings. One of his pieces, "Ranting Mop Head" (1995) is an upright mop on one side and a machine on the other side that has synthetic voices. When activated, the 'mop head' rants with gibberish. Another work, "Uberorgan", is a 12-pipe organ with expanding and contracting balloons that expand and contract with the markings on a 200-foot piano-player-like scroll. In turn, the balloons send air through the pipes, which play hymns, popular music and "unrecognizable tunes". In February 2005, the Whitney Museum of American Art held a mid-career retrospective of Hawkinson's work. Although it... Read full biography
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Keywords (22)
Art Method
- •Conceptual
- •Installation Art
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
Art Style
- •Abstraction and Realism; Semi Abstract
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Humor, Whimsy
- •Icebergs, Glaciers
- •Satire, Parody
- •Social Commentary, Cultural Issues, Political, Racial Views
Chronology
- •Early 21st Century
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
- •The Stuart Collection
Exhibition of Museum
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC