Tim Bavington

Tim Bavington was born in England in 1966. He moved to the United States in 1984 to pursue his career in art. Bavington earned a bachelor’s degree at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. His early post-graduate work involved comics and contributions to The Simpsons television show. In 1993 he moved to Las Vegas where he met David Hickey at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Bavington decided to continue his education at UNLV, earning a Master’s in Fine Arts in 1990.

In the early 2000s Bavington introduced the musical scales of the guitar into his artistic practice. His artwork has continued to evolve with its connection to music and his exhibitions throughout the United States have received high acclaim.

Bavington currently lives in Las Vegas. His work is part of collections at the Portland Art Museum in Oregon, The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, The Denver Art Museum in Colorado, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, California. Additionally, he created a major commission called “Pipe Dream” for Symphony Park at the Smith Center for Performing Arts in Las Vegas, Nevada. Each pipe in this beautiful and colorful sculpture represents a note in the classical masterpiece, “Fanfare for the Common Man,” by Aaron Copland.

 

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

 

1966    Born in England Lives in the United States

 

 

EDUCATION

 

1999    M.F.A. University of Nevada, Las Vegas

1990    B.F.A. Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California

 

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2010    Decade, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, California

            Untitled, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington

2009    Up In Suze’s Room, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, New York

2008    Hello, Hello, LeeAhn Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

            There We Were, Now Here We Are, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, California

2007    Recent Paintings, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York,

            So It Goes, Eleven Fine Art, London, England

2006    Drawings: 1998-2006, G-C Arts, Las Vegas, Nevada

2005    Galerie Richard, Paris, France

            Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, New York

            Space Gallery, London, England

            Heather Marx Gallery, San Francisco, California

2004    Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, California

2003    Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington

            Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, Oregon

2002    Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, California

            James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2001    Feigen Contemporary, New York, New York

2000    Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, California

            Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, Texas

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2010    Borderland Abstraction, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska

            Interval: Gene Davis, Kenneth Noland & Tim Bavington, Scott White Contemporary Art,

                  San Diego California

            Tim Bavington & John Chamberlain, Seomi & Tuus, Seoul, South Korea

2009    Seeing Songs, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

            Small Is Beautiful, Seomi & Tuus, Seoul, South Korea

            Bowie, Clark & Faria, Toronto, Canada

2008    Las Vegas Diaspora, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California, curated by

                 Dave Hickey (catalogue)

            SOUNDWAVES: The Art of Sampling, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego,

                 San Diego, California, organized by Stephanie Hanor

2007    Las Vegas Diaspora, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada, curated by

                 Dave Hickey (catalogue)

            SOUNDWAVES: The Art of Sampling, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego,

                 San Diego, California, organized by Stephanie Hanor

            Painting <=> Design, Claremont Graduate University,Claremont, California, curated by

                 David Pagel (catalogue)

2005    EXTREME abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, curated by

                 Louis Grachos & Claire Schneider (catalogue)

            Pattern, Dae Jun City Museum, Dae Jun, Korea (catalogue)

2004    Specific Objects; The Minimalist Influence, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego,

                 curated by Hugh Davies

2003    Structure, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, California

            Flair, Heather Marx Gallery, San Francisco, California

            Drawings, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2002    New In Town, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, curated by Bruce Guenther

            Neo Painting, Young Eun Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwang ju-city, Korea,

                 (catalogue)

2001    The Magic Hour, Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria,

                 curated by Alex Farquharson (catalogue)

2000    New American Talent, The Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, Texas,

                 curated by David Pagel (catalogue)

            Ultralounge, University of South Florida Museum of Contemporary Art, Tampa, FL,

                 curated by Dave Hickey (catalogue)

 

 

SELECTED ARTICLES / REVIEWS

Kilston, Lyra. “Exhibition Reviews”, Art In America, September 2010.

Pagel, David. “Tim Bavington at Mark Moore Gallery”, Los Angeles Times, Friday, April 30, 2010. Pincus, Robert L. “Stars and Stripes: three painters’ colorfield paintings”, The San Diego

            Union-Tribune, Thursday, April 29, 2010.

Johnson, Ken. “Tim Bavington: ‘Up in Suze’s Room’”, The New York Times, Friday,

            September 25th, 2009.

Moriarity, Bridget. “My Brilliant Career: Tim Bavington”, Art + Auction

            (September 2009): 32.

Knight, Christopher. “His Stripes are a Wonderwall”, Los Angeles Times, Friday, March 21, 2008. Swenson, Kirsten. “Sin City Slickers,” Art in America (February 2008): 62.

Knight, Christopher. “Embracing and refining Las Vegas gaudy,” Los Angeles Times,

            Tuesday, November 20th, 2007, sec E, 1.

Baker, Kenneth. “Tim Bavington at Heather Marx,” ARTnews, (May 2005): 148.

Pagel, David. “Colorful stripes to music, like a rock ‘n’ roll EKG”, Los Angeles Times,

            Friday, April 9th, 2004, pg. E34.

Miles, Christopher. “Tim Bavington at Mark Moore Gallery”, Artforum (November 2002): 192. King, Sarah S.. “Sin City Sampler”, Art In America (July 2002): 51- 53.

Pagel, David. “Aperto Las Vegas”, Flash Art (March-April 2002): 57.

Indyke, Dottie. “(Las) Vegans”, Art News, (May 2002): 176.

Knight, Christopher. “Tim Bavington Sprays Exhuberant Visual Music”, Los Angeles Times,

            Friday, July 12th, 2002, sec F, 19.

Smith, Roberta. “Tim Bavington and Yek”, New York Times, Friday, September 28th, 2000. Pagel, David. “Tim Bavington at Mark Moore Gallery”, Art Issues

            (September/ October 2000): 50.

 

 

CATALOGUES

Las Vegas Diaspora. Curated by Dave Hickey, published by Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas,

            Nevada, 2007.

Gene Davis:Interval. Essays by Jean Lawlor Cohen and Andrea Pollen, published by

The Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC, 2007.

Optic Nerve, Perceptual Art of the 1960’s. Essay by Joe Houston, published by the Columbus

            Museum of Art/Merrill, Columbus, Ohio, 2007.

Painting <=> Design. Essays by Libby Lumpkin and David Pagel, published by

            Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California, 2007

Tim Bavington, paintings 1998-2005. Essay by Dave Hickey, published by Steidl, Gottingen,

            Germany, 2005.

EXTREME abstraction. Curated by Louis Grachos & Claire Schneider, published by

            Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, 2005.

Lorser Feitleson and the invention of hard edge painting. Essays by Henry T. Hopkins and

Michael Duncan, published by Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, California, 2003. Neo Painting. Published by the Young Eun Museum of Contemporary Art, Quang ju-City,

            Korea, 2002.

The Magic Hour, The Convergence of Art and Las Vegas. Edited by Alex Farquharson,

            published by Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria, 2001.

New American Talent 15. Essay by David Pagel, published by the Texas Fine Arts Association,

            Dallas, Texas, 2000.

Ultralounge, The Return of Social Space(with cocktails). Essays by Dave Hickey and

            David Pagel, published by DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas, 1998.

 

 

COLLECTIONS

Allbright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas

Blake Byrne Collection, Los Angeles, California

William H. Brady III, Los Angeles, California

Creative Artists Agency, Beverly Hills, California

Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado

General Mills Corporation, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey

Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska

MGM Mirage Corporation, Las Vegas, Nevada

Marnell Corrao Corporation, Las Vegas, Nevada

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California

Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

Neiman Marcus Corporation, Dallas, Texas

Nevada Cancer Institute, Las Vegas, Nevada

Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California

Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon

Progressive Insurance Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio

Sammlung Mondstudio, Hamburg, Germany

Thomas & Mack Co., Las Vegas, Nevada

United Talent Agency, Beverly Hills, California

Vivendi Universal, Los Angeles, California

Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, California

Steve and Elaine Wynn Collection, Las Vegas, Nevada

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas