Tim Bavington (b. 1966, England) received his BFA from ArtCenter College of Design (CA) before making the permanent move to Las Vegas, where he completed his MFA at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (NV). His work is included in the public collections of the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation (CA), Crocker Art Museum (CA), Honolulu Museum of Art (HI), Albright-Knox Art Gallery (NY), Creative Artists Agency (CA), Joslyn Art Museum (NE), Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (CA), Portland Art Museum (OR), United Talent Agency (CA), Vivendi Universal (CA), Palm Springs Art Museum (CA), Denver Art Museum (CO), The Museum of Modern Art (NY), Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University (UT), and the McNay Art Museum (TX). He has exhibited at LeeAhn Gallery (Daegu), Jack Shainman Gallery (NY), Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard (Paris), Space Gallery (London), the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MA), Laguna Art Museum (CA), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires, and the Texas Fine Arts Center (TX), among others worldwide. For the past fifteen years, Bavington has created public sculptures, recently completing his second USGSA Art-in-Architecture project on the U.S.-Mexico border. He is currently working on a memorial for victims of the October 1, 2017, mass shooting in Las Vegas (NV).
Artist Statement:
Music is the genesis of Tim Bavington's paintings. Through synthetic polymer paint, Bavington acts as a translator between the aural and the visual as he transforms guitar solos, melodies and bass lines into vertical bands of color. Tracks from bands such as The Darkness, Oasis, and The Rolling Stones become vibrant bands of color, and bridge compositional concepts between seemingly unlike disciplines. Although Bavington has a method that designates sound to color and composition, the paintings are not literal translations; they remain open to intuition and decision-making, allowing for a distinct artistic presence.