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Artist-in-Residence

Timothy Horn

IN STUDIO

Thursday, September 9, 2010 through
Saturday, October 9, 2010

ON EXHIBIT

Thursday, September 9, 2010 through
Saturday, October 30, 2010

Timothy Horn

With a fondness for using unusual materials – such as blown-glass, rubber, and rock sugar – Australian-born artist Timothy Horn is known for creating large-scale sculptures that challenge viewers to find the meeting point between the natural and constructed worlds. Inspired by decorative arts and engravings from European baroque and rococo, as well as by 19th century studies of organic forms including lichen, coral and seaweed, Horn’s work conveys fantasy and ornament but is underpinned by craftsmanship and concept.

For his bejeweled wall pieces, Horn melds the organic and the artificial into a delicate silhouette by drafting a complex pattern and using grafted imagery of natural forms. A tree-like structure is constructed in wax and then cast in bronze and nickel-plated. Lustrous, large pearls fabricated from mirrored blown glass are the final baroque touch.

Other examples of Horn’s oeuvre to be displayed at Lux are his 18th-century wall sconces made of transparent rubber, as well as a Cinderella-like carriage and a 300-pound chandelier both encrusted in honey-colored, crystallized rock sugar. The sugar-gilded chandelier and carriage were featured in an exhibit at the de Young Museum in San Francisco that referenced the rags-to-riches life of Alma Spreckels, widow of millionaire sugar baron Adolph Spreckels, who was brother of real estate magnate John D. Spreckels, one of San Diego’s founding entrepreneurs.

A graduate of Victorian College of the Arts and Australian National University, Horn received his MFA from Massachusetts College of Art. His work has been featured in exhibitions at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the Museum of Arts & Design and at the Armory Art Show in New York, Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, and the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra. He has received grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Massachusetts Cultural Council, and LEF New England. Residencies include the British Academy in Rome, Yaddo in upstate New York, the Fine Art Works Center in Provincetown and RAIR in New Mexico.

Solo Exhibitions

2011

Rivers Always Meet The Sea, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France

2010

More Reasons Than One, CTRL Gallery, Houston, TX

Breakfast by the Light of the Moon, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY

2008

dreaming out of season, FILIALE, Berlin, Germany

2007

New Paintings, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY

2005

New Paintings, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX

New Paintings, LUXE Gallery, New York, NY

Too Tall To Get Over And Too Wide To Get Around, (drawings / project room), LUXE Gallery, New York, NY

2004

New Paintings, Rocket Projects, Miami, FL

2003

New Paintings, LUXE Gallery, New York, NY

2001

Confection, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL

1998

Recent Works, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL

Selected Group Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions thru 1990

2010

Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

2009

Maquettes, LA Louver, Venice, CA

Early Wood Sculpture, Santa Monica College, Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Selected Cats, Chris Winfield Gallery, Carmel, CA

2007

Primal Form: The Sculpture of Gwynn Murrill, The Fresno Museum, Fresno, CA

Cats, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID

Birds, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

From Classical to Baroque, LA Louver, Venice, CA

2006

Recent Sculpture in Bronze, Joan T. Washburn Gallery, New York, NY

2005

LA Louver, Skyroom, Venice, CA

Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID

2004

Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID

Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2003

New Work, LA Louver, Venice, CA

2002

Lux Art Institute, Encinitas, CA

Imago Gallery, Palm Desert, CA

2001

Joan T. Washburn Gallery, New York, NY

2000

Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe. NM

1999

Dennis Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, ID ‘

John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1998

Sculptures in Bronze, Joan Washburn, New York, NY

1997

Gail Severn Gallery, Sun Valley, ID

Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1996

Gail Severn Gallery, Sun Valley, ID

1995

Joan T. Washburn Gallery, New York, NY

1994

Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

1993

Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID

1992

Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID

1991

Asher Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1990

Asher Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Rutgars Barclay Gallery, Santa Fe, NMSelected Group Exhibitions thru 1990

Solo Exhibitions thru 1990

2010

Timothy Horn, Lux Art Institute, Encinitas, CA

2009

Medusa, LAND/ART 09, Santa Fe, NM

2008

Medusa, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

Bitter/Suite, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA

2006

Villa Medusa, Hosfelt, Gallery, New York, NY

(in)discrete objects, Sub-Urban Series, Knoxville Museum of Art, TN

2005

Difficult to Swallow, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2003

Water-Sports, Jam Factory, Adelaide, Australia Cinderella Complex, Melbourne Town Hall Art Space, Melbourne, Australia

2002

Water-Sports, Craft ACT, Canberra, Australia

2001

Glory Box, Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Cinderella Complex, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, Australia

1995

Concert, Kirkcaldy Davies Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

1992

Ménage à trois, City Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

1989

Water Organ, Winter Folly, City Gallery. Melbourne, Australia

Selected Group Exhibitions (through 1990)

2010

Selected Works from the UniSA Samstag Collection, Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, Hawke Building, UniSA, Australia

GlassWear, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Salem, NC

Julie Heffernan/Timothy Horn, The Art Show, Park Avenue Armory (with PPOW Gallery), New York, NY

Dallas Art Fair (with James Kelly Contemporary), Dallas, TX

Tour de Force: In case of Emergency, Break Glass, Artisan, Brisbane, Australia

2009

Cabinet of Curiosities, Dunedin Arts Center, Dunedin, FL

Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, Miami, FL

The Coldest Winter I Ever Spent Was a Summer in San Francisco, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Reinventions, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia

New Work, Hosfelt Gallery, New York, NY

Here & There, LAND/ART 09, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM

GlassWear, Museum of Arts and Design, New York.

Venues included Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL; Museum of Arts & Design, New York, NY; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christie, TX; Glazen Huis Vlaams Centrum voor Hedendaagse Glaskunstk, Lommel, Belgium

2008

In Pursuit of Beauty, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA

Aqua Wynwood Art Fair, Miami, FL

Optimism, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia

FLux, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM

GlassWear, Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Germany

2007

Andy and Oz, Parallel Visions, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA

Aqua Wynwood Art Fair, Miami, FL GlassWear, Glass Pavilion, Toledo Museum of Art, OH

Jellyfish - Nature Inspires Art, National Maritime Museum, Sydney, Australia

RAiR 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM

ARCO, Arte Contemporaneo, Feria de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

The Art and Artifice of Science, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM

2006

Flicker, Albany University Art Museum, Albany, NY

Rapture is a Cool Place, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA

Mass 3D, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA

Fine Arts Work Center Fellows, Provincetown Art Association Museum, Provincetown, MA

Preview, Hosfelt Gallery, New York, NY

2005

Ornamentation: The Art of Desire, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

Academici, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; British Academy, Rome, Italy

Kindle and Swag, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

2004

Kindle and Swag, Art Museum of University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

MFA Thesis Exhibition, Bakala Gallery, MassArt, Boston, MA

Walk This Way, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, QLD, Australia

2003

Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture, Grounds for Sculpture, International Sculpture Center, Hamilton, NJ

Beautiful Rebellion, Adams House Art Space, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2002

Gulliver’s Travels, CAST, Hobart, Tasmania, Ivan Doherty Gallery Sydney, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, IMA Brisbane, CACSA, Adelaide, PICA, Perth

Less is More, Less is a Bore, Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

2001

National Sculpture Prize, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia

Glow, Object Gallery, Customs House, Customs House, Sydney, Australia

Vanessa Buemi and Timothy Horn, Object Gallery, Customs House, Sydney, Australia

2000

SpringART, SpringOUT Festival, Sound Screen Archives, Canberra, Australia

GAS Conference, LIU, Brooklyn, NY

1999

Glass, Essentially Canberra, Glass Festival Exhibition, Hsinchu Municipal Centre, Taiwan; La Salle College of the Arts SIA, Singapore

Glass, Essentially Canberra, Object Gallery, Customs House, Sydney, Australia

RFC Glass Prize, Touring Exhibition, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Canberra, Wagga Wagga

Fill This Space, Collaborative Installation, Next Wave Festival, North Melbourne Town Hall Hotel, North Melbourne, Australia

1998

Venezia Aperto Vetro 1998, L’Instituto Statale D’Arte, Venice, Italy

RFC Glass Prize, Touring Exhibition, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane

1997

Site and Scale, Yarra Sculpture Space, Abbotsford, Melbourne, Australia

1996

Love: at the Carlisle Street Motel, Carlisle Street Motel, St. Kilda, Australia

1995

Blundstone Traveling Fellowship, Touring Exhibition, Launceston, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Canberra, Brisbane

1991

Gasworks Sculpture Exhibition, Southgate, Melbourne, Australia