Braque Corner, 2006 - Tim Davis
About the Work
About Braque Corner
Tim Davis's Braque Corner highlights an overlooked space in the Guggenheim, New York, revealing the intricate beauty of the shadows cast by the ornate architectural frame of George Braque's modernist masterpiece, Landscape near Antwerp. Davis's photograph examines ...Read More
Tim Davis's Braque Corner highlights an overlooked space in the Guggenheim, New York, revealing the intricate beauty of the shadows cast by the ornate architectural frame of George Braque's modernist masterpiece, Landscape near Antwerp. Davis's photograph examines the high-class gravitas of fine art.By focusing his lens on the frame of the work in lieu of the canvas, Davis highlights that the way an artwork is contextualized and hung is at times as important as the artwork itself.Read Less
About the Artist
About Tim Davis
Tim Davis's wry photographs find the sublime in the quotidian. Whether shooting an abandoned pair of sneakers, the streets of a nameless suburb, or ...Read More
Tim Davis's wry photographs find the sublime in the quotidian. Whether shooting an abandoned pair of sneakers, the streets of a nameless suburb, or the corner of a framed painting in a museum, Davis captures the peripheral, everyday beauty of our daily life.
While a recipient of a 2008 Rome Prize Fellowship, Tim Davis documented Rome's classical ruins and the detritus from tourists that envelop them in relation to contemporary urban life. By doing so, he created a world where time has collapsed. Expanding his scope to include iconic landscapes in other countries, Davis compiled all of the images to create The New Antiquities, his most recent series. A writer and teacher as well as a visual artist, Davis's work has been reviewed by a myriad of publications, including the New Yorker and Art in America.Read Less
While a recipient of a 2008 Rome Prize Fellowship, Tim Davis documented Rome's classical ruins and the detritus from tourists that envelop them in relation to contemporary urban life. By doing so, he created a world where time has collapsed. Expanding his scope to include iconic landscapes in other countries, Davis compiled all of the images to create The New Antiquities, his most recent series. A writer and teacher as well as a visual artist, Davis's work has been reviewed by a myriad of publications, including the New Yorker and Art in America.Read Less
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