Tim Davis

I mentioned this work in class on Wednesday. A great early series from Tim Davis, which deals directly with the question of light. In his lucid introduction to the series, he writes:

In photographic language, light is read as grammar; as an aesthetic tool, helping the artist describe an apprehended visual world. I am pursuing a visual world where light is syntactic; light veering close to content. In all my work light is cultural and political. It is put there by someone, for a purpose: to invite citizens to share their money with corporations, to keep workers working, to describe democracy, to allow paintings in museums to be seen in one particular way.

Bradford Pear

Car Accident

Sconce

The Strand

I'm a big fan of the way in which Davis investigates larger political issues through vernacular, often banal, subject matter. And there is a great deal of humor in the work, which always makes it fun to look at.

More work from the series can be found here.