Tim Whiten: Tools of Conveyance

Hospital bedsheet with stains

Image credit:ÌýTim Whiten, American, b. 1941,ÌýEnigmataÌýseries, 1994-95, coffee stained cotton, approx. 99 x 67 inches. Image courtesy of Tim Whiten and OlgaÌýKorperÌýGallery.Ìý

Drawing

Image credit:ÌýTim Whiten, American, b. 1941,ÌýSpanner,Ìý1975, graphite on paper, 25 x 38 inches. ImageÌýcourtesy of Tim Whiten and OlgaÌýKorperÌýGallery.Ìý

drawing

Image credit: Tim Whiten, American, b. 1941,ÌýSaying His Name, Harmonics, 2017, graphite onÌýCansonÌývanilla paper, 39 1/4 x 27 1/2 inches. Image courtesy of Tim Whiten and OlgaÌýKorperÌýGallery.Ìý

a pink glass human skull

Image credit: Tim Whiten, American, b. 1941,ÌýPerceval, 2013, glass, 7 x 6 x 9 inches.ÌýImage courtesy of Tim Whiten and OlgaÌýKorperÌýGallery.Ìý

Tim Whiten: Tools ofÌýConveyance

August 17—December 18, 2021

Tim Whiten: Tools of Conveyance surveys 40 years of Whiten’s works on paper and objects related to his mark making practice. His pictorial language of gesture refers to and reveals physical and spiritual inscriptions people make on the world and on each other. In his body of work Whiten draws attention to different states of consciousness associated with rhythms of everyday work and activity. He is in dialogue with transformations reflected in traditions of ritualized behavior, many of which were inherited through family lines that can be traced back to Africa and Europe by way of the southern United States.

This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

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This exhibition and programming are generously supported by Boulder County Arts Alliance, CU Boulder Center for African and African American Studies, CU Boulder Student Arts and Cultural Enrichment fees and CU Art Museum members.