About the Work
The viewer is a voyeur, looking through the blinds of Church Window, photographed by Tim Davis. Inside is a tree crafted with colored paper bearing a sign with an encouraging Bible verse from Psalm 1:3: “He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper.” The scene resembles the wall of a child’s Sunday School classroom, but Tim Davis creates a complex and conflicting image. Is the message meant for the viewer, who is on the outside of this lesson? Church Window provokes a discourse on who exactly receives these Christian reassurances.
About the Artist
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.
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