Timothy Hull

Erotic and poetic narratives are wrought through Timothy Hull’s richly textured and sprawling surfaces patterned with iconographic Greek, Coptic and early Arabic glyphs and imagery laid out in painterly washes, splashes and splatters. Recurrent motifs of Attic vases and silhouettes of the erotic figures of Kourous and Endymion are featured in one series of portraits. In another series, a stacking of painted tablets address the obfuscation of linguistic memory over time. In his intense layering and geometric abstraction, the density of Hull’s composition is formally loaded with the sensibilities of abstract art rubbing against a camp imagining of a Classical past.

Timothy Hull’s solo exhibitions include Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, ASHES/ASHES, Los Angeles, and Fitzroy Gallery, New York. His work has been included in group exhibitions at Mitchell-Innes and Nash, The Hole, FRAC Lorraine, Tate Modern, the Morris Museum of Art, and the Nomas Foundation. His work has been featured and reviewed in the New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, Flash Art, Interview Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle.

Courtesy of ASHES/ASHES