Tim Kent

My most recognizable work features stretched canvas as a medium for sculpture. The surface of a plane, the edge, and interior, all create an important avenue for discovery and uncovering meaning and transformation. This non-traditional formal element encourages the audience to focus on shifts in our perception of a color, dependent on environmental effects with the plane in space that color inhabits.Through presenting simplified illustrations of color in a realistic context, my work communicates with the audience on a primitive, yet, striking level. I use the space and volume of my canvases as chiseling tools to give an understanding of hues in relation to the form they’re on. By altering the light characteristics of each hue, it offers graphic effects similar to filters in social media or photoshop. This allows the audience to experience color with a 3-dimensional dialect.My use of vibrant colors and geometry allude to contemporary trends within software, apps and Street Art. By fashionable demand, most of the methods in which we gather information are two-dimensional (TV, Phones, Tablet, Billboards), and flooded with an overstimulation of unrealistic visuals. An evolution into reductive 2D experiences in which millions of pixels of color are flattened and spoon-fed to us is not color by reality. In fact, the lack of a true “depth of field” ironically weakens our eye muscles and means of focusing. Some of the color schemes, gradients and textures within my work play with this idea by distracting from and erasing the canvas form.

Tim Kent (United States, b. 1991) received a BFA in Painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, in 2014. Kent’s work has been featured in New American Paintings, at Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, and Hamptons Fine Art Fair. His first solo exhibition was in Manhattan, New York, at Classic Car Club Manhattan, 2013. Since, he has exhibited works in several solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States. In 2017, Kent completed an 8-week Alumni Atelier Artist Residency, in which he created a 13-foot shaped canvas installation for Savannah College of Art and Design. Kent went on to found a pop-up gallery in Lenox Square named “Atlanta’s Smallest Art Gallery” in 2018. Over the past decade, Kent has worked with art consultants and galleries to create large format installations for corporations and collectors located in: Manhattan, Silicon Valley, Santa Monica, Miami, Jacksonville, Atlanta, Savannah, Austin, Phoenix, Kansas City, San Francisco, Boston and Ontario. His installations have also been used for several client’s regional/national marketing campaigns.