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âTIM ROWAN: NEW WORKâ WILL OPEN AT CAVIN-MORRIS GALLERY APRIL 12
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NEW YORK CITY â âTim Rowan: New Workâ will be on view April 12âMay 12 at Cavin-Morris Gallery.
A clay vessel holds more than internal or external space. There are artists all over the world whose bodies of work hold within them a phenomenon that is a combination of not only a place but history as well. Tim Rowanâs sculptures capture time and place.
Rowanâs work dances on that high wire where utilitarian coincidences and non-utilitarian choices taunt each other endlessly. His spiked vessels are examples of this; holding a tea bowl form they are almost unusable because they will pierce the lip that is put to them thus deconstructing and subverting the traditional intentionality of the tea vessel. And yet their forms still cut eye-pleasing silhouettes in space.
His larger sculptures play with the same sense of familiarity and subterfuge. They hold references but they are not tied to dogma, they are always shifting in their patterns of meaning from the way earth holds stones in rain, snow and blistering heat to industrial noise and rough perfection.
The gallery is at 210 11th Avenue. For more information, www.cavinmorris.com or 212-226-3768.
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