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ARTmonday: Tim Bavington

Las Vegas based artist Tim Bavington is known for his vertically-oriented stripe paintings. While many of his works are rigid, the ones I like best are blurred and drippy. The paintings are abstract interpretations of music.

Using synthetic polymer paint, Bavington translates guitar solos, melodies, and bass lines, including those from The Darkness, Oasis, and The Rolling Stones, into vibrant bands of color. Although Bavington has a method that designates sound to color and composition, the paintings are not literal translations.

He also creates some that have an ink-blot sort of feel, though I’m not certain these are also related to music.

Step In (Out), 2007
synthetic polymer on canvas
Installation at Las Vegas Diaspora at Las Vegas Art Museum, 2007
Collection Mondstudio, Hamburg, Germany

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Cannonball, 2010
synthetic polymer and ink on paper
Collection of Museum of Fine Arts Houston

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Blue Monday, 2010
synthetic polymer and ink on paper

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Get Happy!, 2010
synthetic polymer and ink on paper

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Get Happy!, 2009
synthetic polymer on canvas

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Happy Today, 2009
synthetic polymer on canvas

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Up In Suze’s Room, 2009
synthetic polymer on canvas

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Jump, 2006
synthetic polymer on canvas

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Buddy Holly(Weez), 2007
synthetic polymer on canvas

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Heart Above Head, 2011
synthetic polymer on canvas

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Cold Fire, 2009
synthetic polymer on canvas

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Study for Manic (Positive), 2010
synthetic polymer on canvas

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Heart Above Head #3, 2011
synthetic polymer on canvas

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Bold as Love, 2010
synthetic polymer on canvas

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Falling Down, 2009
synthetic polymer on canvas

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Heart Above Head #5, 2011
synthetic polymer on canvas

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Bavington’s work is included in the collections of MoMA, Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, Portland Art Museum in Oregon, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Denver Art Museum, among others.

He is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery in NYC and Mark Moore Gallery in Santa Monica.

Never Mind the Clothing, It’s the Room

Catching up on my magazine reading the other night I paused at this Carolina Herrera ad I came across in the new issue of Harper’s Bazaar (the one with Demi on the cover). Sure, the yellow dress is appropriately glam, but it’s the room I was taken with.The brass floor lamp with the chunky cube shades, the art deco black lacquer daybed, the mirrored console, the geometric patterned black and white marble floor . . . Love.