Tim Mosman - Artist Statement

I start each piece sitting with a blank piece of paper contemplating my first move. Once that move is made, I respond to it with additional marks, gestures, colors, erasures, what I will call “process.” I attempt to engage all of my ability to focus on each move I make exactly while I’m making it. As I proceed, maintaining and continuing to sharpen the focus, I build the structure of the work out of the process.

My friend and teacher, David Dunlap, used to say two things to me. ‘Trust your eyeball’ and, ‘follow your nose.’

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Exhibitions

Solo:

• 1998 New American Talent: The Twelfth Exhibition, Traveling Exhibition

  Bridge Center for Contemporary Art, El Paso, TX. 1998

  Art League of Houston, Houston, TX. 1997

  Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, Austin, TX. 1996

  J. Wayne Stark Gallery, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

• 1998 Member’s Choice, with Scott Baglione, Andy Ivantosh, and Joni Pevarnik, Central Arts Collective, Tucson, AZ
• 1997 Drawings: Realism to Abstraction: A Contemporary Survey of the Bay Area, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
• 1996 Reproducing Nature, Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  6th Biennial National Drawing Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
• 1995 Bay Area Portfolio: About Abstraction, Bedford Gallery at the Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
• 1995 Abstract Contours, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
• 1994 Drawing the Line, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
• 1993 Fresh Paint, Transamerica Pyramid Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• 1992 COCA 92nd Annual, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
• 1992 Visiting Faculty Exhibition, University of Washington School of Art, Seattle, WA
• 1991 Art Trends, Clary-Miner Gallery, Ltd., Buffalo, NY
• 1991 67th Crocker-Kingsley Annual Exhibition, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
• 1991 56th Annual National Exhibition, The Cooperstown Art Association Galleries, Cooperstown, NY
• 1991 Bedford Biennial, Bedford Gallery at the Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
• 1990 Work by Gallery Artists, Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• 1990 Opening Exhibition, SOCO Gallery, Napa, CA
• 1989 Calgene 1989, Natsoulas Novelozo Gallery, Davis, CA
• 1989 Work for the New Year, Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• 1989 Chain Reactions 1989, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Art of California Magazine, February 1994

Gladysz, Thomas. “San Francisco Scene,” Art-Talk, January 1995, 24.

Wilson, Sally. “The Big Picture,” Diablo Arts, December – February 1995, 32-5.

Wolfe, Townsend. 6th Biennial National Drawing Invitational, Arkansas Arts Center
1996, 59-61.

Zyzzyva, Spring, 1994.