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December 11 – January 10, 2015
Tim Clifford Threat Assessment
Opening Reception: Saturday, December 11, 6–8 PM
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The Threat Assessment series explores the imagery of 20th-century carnival shooting galleries and continues my investigation of the way fear manifests itself in the material objects of our culture.
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Clifford’s first solo exhibition is timed to coincide with the third anniversary of the school shooting at Newtown, Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School, Clifford’s childhood school. The exhibition showcases Clifford’s Threat Assessment series of large scale, stark black and white ink and paper inlay drawings of carnival shooting galleries done at life scale—filled with ducks, birds, and abstract geometric designs—and Target Panic, a series of 100 gouache on paper drawings based on pistol and sniper targets. Both series are part of Clifford’s ongoing investigation of the way fear and violence are encoded in our culture’s vernacular objects.
Target Panic refers to a condition that affects competition shooters and archers, where after thousands of hours of practice the shooter is no longer able to keep a steady hand or shoot straight. It’s a psychological affliction that severs the link between hand, mind and eye—a situation not unlike the artist or image maker in our world of information overload.
The centerpiece of the exhibition is Tragedy is Not Enough, the largest work yet in the Threat Assessment series at 12 x 24 feet.
Photo Caption:
The Ideal Classroom, 2014
ink on paper and paper inlay on panel
108 x 120 inches
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Friday, December 11–Sunday, January 10, 2015
Tim Clifford, Threat Assessment
Opening reception: Saturday, December 11, 6–8 PM
Threat Assessment, Clifford’s first solo exhibition, is timed to coincide with the third anniversary of the shooting at the artist’s childhood school, Sandy Hook Elementary. The show includes large-scale ink-on-paper-inlay drawings of carnival shooting galleries and Target Panic, a series of 100 gouache-on-paper drawings based on shooting targets.
ABOUT
About Tim Clifford
A Brooklyn based artist, Clifford recently completed the Bronx Museum’s Artist in the Marketplace 35 program and was featured in Bronx Calling: The Third AIM Biennial; his work has previously been shown at Socrates Sculpture Park and in High Desert Test Sites 5 in Joshua Tree, California. Clifford has been selected as one of five artists to create public sculptures on Randall’s Island in May 2016 as part of FLOW16.”He received a NYFA Sculpture Fellowship in 2001. Clifford received his B.A. from Bard College and his M.F.A from the School of Visual Arts.
