- Tim Hawkinson
Tim Hawkinson (born 1960) is an
artist from theUnited States of America .He was born inSan Francisco ,California , and graduated fromSan Jose State University ; in 1989 he earned an MFA at theUniversity of California, Los Angeles . His work is mostly sculptural, ranging in scale from minute to huge. His themes include his own body (although none of his work could be calledself portrait ure in any traditional sense), music, and the passing of time, as well as his artistic engagement with material, technique, and process. Many of his pieces are mechanized (the mechanism usually fully on view), or involve sound. His 2005 sculpture "Bear" is a part of theStuart Collection of public art on the campus of theUniversity of California, San Diego .References
* Lawrence Rinder. 2005, "Tim Hawkinson" (Whitney Museum of American Art)
External links
* [http://x-traonline.org/past_articles.php?articleID=51 Taking the Measure of the World] "Exhibition review by Ken Allan in" X-TRA : Contemporary Art Quarterly
* [http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/hawkinson/ Biography, interviews, essays, artwork images and video clips] from PBS series "" - Season 2 (2003).
* [http://www.laweekly.com/general/features/hurricane-of-the-eye/480/ Doug Harvey's LA Weekly review of Hawkinson's Mid-Career Survey]
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