TIM BEST

Bio

Tim Best graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago Studio Arts program in 1995. In 1998 Tim began a career as a web developer programming and developing web based technologies. Since then he has lived in Santa Fe, NM, Chicago, IL, New Orleans, LA and now Dallas, TX. He is involved with the arts community in those places and has shown in spaces that focus on new media, photography and video. Select exhibition venues include 3 Ring Circus Productions and Barrister's Gallery in New Orleans, Three-Walls in Chicago, Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, Medicine Factory in Memphis, TN, and 500x Gallery in Dallas, TX. Publications include the Times Picayune and The Gambit in New Orleans and the Commercial Appeal in Memphis. Books include Constance 2007, a publication of New Orleans Artists who stayed and helped rebuild after hurricane Katrina. Tim has given lectures at Rhodes College in Memphis and at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans. In Dallas he is a member of Gallery 500x, a CO-OP of local emerging artists. He recently completed a residency at Louisiana Artworks National Artist Residency Program.

Statement

I visualize dramatic scenes in my head and reproduce them in the studio. I draw the imagery from mass media, fashion, and movies. Conflict is infused in contemporary media to entertain us, but I believe drama is also used to inform us. The exercise of creating drama is my way of reminding the viewer that the drama is all made up.

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