Tim Davis

<i>The Upstate New York Olympics</i>, 2010-11
34 minute loop; 3-channel video installation; 3 DVDs in artist designed case
Installation dimensions variable

The Upstate New York Olympics, 2010-11
34 minute loop; 3-channel video installation; 3 DVDs in artist designed case
Installation dimensions variable

<i>Snowman Jiu Jitsu (The Upstate New York Olympics)</i>, 2011
Gold plated cast resin on walnut base with engraved plate
18 x 6 x 3 inches (45.7 x 15.2 x 7.6 cm)

Snowman Jiu Jitsu (The Upstate New York Olympics), 2011
Gold plated cast resin on walnut base with engraved plate
18 x 6 x 3 inches (45.7 x 15.2 x 7.6 cm)

<i>Mailbox Clamber (The Upstate New York Olympics)</i>, 2011
Gold plated cast resin on walnut base with engraved plate
14 x 8 x 3 inches (35.6 x 20.3 x 7.6 cm)

Mailbox Clamber (The Upstate New York Olympics), 2011
Gold plated cast resin on walnut base with engraved plate
14 x 8 x 3 inches (35.6 x 20.3 x 7.6 cm)

<i>Lawn Jockey Leapfrog (The Upstate New York Olympics)</i>, 2011
Gold plated cast resin on walnut base with engraved plate
15 x 6 x 3 inches (38.1 x 15.2 x 7.6 cm)

Lawn Jockey Leapfrog (The Upstate New York Olympics), 2011
Gold plated cast resin on walnut base with engraved plate
15 x 6 x 3 inches (38.1 x 15.2 x 7.6 cm)

<i>Headstone Exercises (The Upstate New York Olympics)</i>, 2011
Gold plated cast resin on walnut base with engraved plate
15 x 6 x 5 inches (38.1 x 15.2 x 12.7 cm)

Headstone Exercises (The Upstate New York Olympics), 2011
Gold plated cast resin on walnut base with engraved plate
15 x 6 x 5 inches (38.1 x 15.2 x 12.7 cm)

<i>Compost Pile Freestyle (The Upstate New York Olympics)</i>, 2011
Gold plated cast resin on walnut base with engraved plate
12 x 6 x 3 inches (30.5 x 15.2 x 7.6 cm)

Compost Pile Freestyle (The Upstate New York Olympics), 2011
Gold plated cast resin on walnut base with engraved plate
12 x 6 x 3 inches (30.5 x 15.2 x 7.6 cm)

<i>Jalopy Roll (The Upstate New York Olympics)</i>, 2011
Gold plated cast resin on walnut base with engraved plate
13 x 8 x 3 inches (33 x 20.3 x 7.6 cm)

Jalopy Roll (The Upstate New York Olympics), 2011
Gold plated cast resin on walnut base with engraved plate
13 x 8 x 3 inches (33 x 20.3 x 7.6 cm)

<i>Tinsel in Bamboo (The New Antiquity)</i>, 2009
C-print
24 x 30 inches (61 x 76.2 cm)

Tinsel in Bamboo (The New Antiquity), 2009
C-print
24 x 30 inches (61 x 76.2 cm)

<i>Stock Pages (The New Antiquity)</i>, 2009
C-print
16 x 20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm)

Stock Pages (The New Antiquity), 2009
C-print
16 x 20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm)

<i>Statue of Pants (The New Antiquity)</i>, 2009
C-print
60 x 72 inches (152.4 x 182.9 cm)

Statue of Pants (The New Antiquity), 2009
C-print
60 x 72 inches (152.4 x 182.9 cm)

<i>Immigrant Snapshot Album (The New Antiquity)</i>, 2009
C-print
18 x 23 inches (45.7 x 58.4 cm)

Immigrant Snapshot Album (The New Antiquity), 2009
C-print
18 x 23 inches (45.7 x 58.4 cm)

<i>Outside the Ring Road (The New Antiquity)</i>, 2009
C-print
33 x 43 inches (83.8 x 109.2 cm)

Outside the Ring Road (The New Antiquity), 2009
C-print
33 x 43 inches (83.8 x 109.2 cm)

<i>Gypsy Meal (The New Antiquity)</i>, 2009
C-print
24 x 30 inches (61 x 76.2 cm)

Gypsy Meal (The New Antiquity), 2009
C-print
24 x 30 inches (61 x 76.2 cm)

<i>Glamorous Hair (The New Antiquity)</i>, 2009
C-print
26 x 33 inches (66 x 83.8 cm)

Glamorous Hair (The New Antiquity), 2009
C-print
26 x 33 inches (66 x 83.8 cm)

<i>Fluorescent Green Cleat (The New Antiquity)</i>, 2009
C-print
17 x 21 inches (43.2 x 53.3 cm)

Fluorescent Green Cleat (The New Antiquity), 2009
C-print
17 x 21 inches (43.2 x 53.3 cm)

<i>Colosseum Pictures (The New Antiquity)</i>, 2009
C-print
16 1/2 x 21 inches (41.9 x 53.3 cm)

Colosseum Pictures (The New Antiquity), 2009
C-print
16 1/2 x 21 inches (41.9 x 53.3 cm)

<i>Cat and Charlie Chaplin (The New Antiquity)</i>, 2009
C-print
24 x 30 inches (61 x 76.2 cm)

Cat and Charlie Chaplin (The New Antiquity), 2009
C-print
24 x 30 inches (61 x 76.2 cm)

<i>Auto Part Labels (The New Antiquity)</i>, 2009
C-print
42 x 53 inches (106.7 x 134.6 cm)

Auto Part Labels (The New Antiquity), 2009
C-print
42 x 53 inches (106.7 x 134.6 cm)

<i>Angel Armor (The New Antiquity)</i>, 2009
C-print
26 x 20 inches (66 x 50.8 cm)

Angel Armor (The New Antiquity), 2009
C-print
26 x 20 inches (66 x 50.8 cm)

<i>Aqueduct Golf (The New Antiquity)</i>, 2009
C-print
32 x 40 inches (81.3 x 101.6 cm)

Aqueduct Golf (The New Antiquity), 2009
C-print
32 x 40 inches (81.3 x 101.6 cm)

<i>Virgin Mary (Politicians in Cyan)</i>, 2008
C-print
50 1/2 x 40 inches (128.3 x 101.6 cm)

Virgin Mary (Politicians in Cyan), 2008
C-print
50 1/2 x 40 inches (128.3 x 101.6 cm)

<i>Sole Shop (The New Antiquity)</i>, 2008
C-print
30 1/4 x 38 3/4 inches (76.8 x 98.4 cm)

Sole Shop (The New Antiquity), 2008
C-print
30 1/4 x 38 3/4 inches (76.8 x 98.4 cm)

<i>Pretty Boy (Politicians in Cyan)</i>, 2008
C-print
40 x 50 1/2 in.
TD 1432

Pretty Boy (Politicians in Cyan), 2008
C-print
40 x 50 1/2 in.
TD 1432

<i>Motel Boomerang (The New Antiquity)</i>, 2008
C-print
43 1/4 x 54 1/2 inches (109.9 x 138.4 cm)

Motel Boomerang (The New Antiquity), 2008
C-print
43 1/4 x 54 1/2 inches (109.9 x 138.4 cm)

<i>Fresco (The New Antiquity)</i>, 2008
C-print
54 x 43 inches (137.2 x 109.2 cm)

Fresco (The New Antiquity), 2008
C-print
54 x 43 inches (137.2 x 109.2 cm)

<i>Chandelier (Illilluminations)</i>, 2006
C-print
42 x 55 inches (106.7 x 139.7 cm)

Chandelier (Illilluminations), 2006
C-print
42 x 55 inches (106.7 x 139.7 cm)

<i>Light Bulb Shop Window (Illilluminations)</i>, 2005
C-print
24 x 20 inches (139.7 x 109.2 cm)

Light Bulb Shop Window (Illilluminations), 2005
C-print
24 x 20 inches (139.7 x 109.2 cm)

<i>Empire State Building (Illilluminations)</i>, 2005
C-print
16 x 13 inches (40.6 x 33 cm)

Empire State Building (Illilluminations), 2005
C-print
16 x 13 inches (40.6 x 33 cm)

<i>White House (My Life in Politics)</i>, 2002-04
C-print
20 x 24 inches (50.8 x 61 cm)

White House (My Life in Politics), 2002-04
C-print
20 x 24 inches (50.8 x 61 cm)

<i>Oval Office (My Life in Politics)</i>, 2002-04
C-print
48 x 60 inches (121.9 x 152.4 cm)

Oval Office (My Life in Politics), 2002-04
C-print
48 x 60 inches (121.9 x 152.4 cm)

<i>One People, One Nation, One Taco, One Destiny (My Life in Politics)</i>, 2002-04
C-print
48 x 60 inches (121.9 x 152.4 cm)

One People, One Nation, One Taco, One Destiny (My Life in Politics), 2002-04
C-print
48 x 60 inches (121.9 x 152.4 cm)

<i>Founding Fathers' Crotches 1 (My Life in Politics)</i>, 2002-04
C-print
11 x 14 inches (27.9 x 35.6 cm)

Founding Fathers' Crotches 1 (My Life in Politics), 2002-04
C-print
11 x 14 inches (27.9 x 35.6 cm)

<i>Study of a Head of a Woman (Permanent Collection)</i>, 2003
C-print
23 3/4 x 14 1/2 inches (60.3 x 36.8 cm)

Study of a Head of a Woman (Permanent Collection), 2003
C-print
23 3/4 x 14 1/2 inches (60.3 x 36.8 cm)

<i>Moonlight (Permanent Collection)</i>, 2003
C-print
24 x 20 inches (61 x 50.8 cm)

Moonlight (Permanent Collection), 2003
C-print
24 x 20 inches (61 x 50.8 cm)

<i>Greek Girls (Permanent Collection)</i>, 2003
C-print
35 x 30 inches (88.9 x 76.2 cm)

Greek Girls (Permanent Collection), 2003
C-print
35 x 30 inches (88.9 x 76.2 cm)

<i>The Oarsman (Permanent Collection)</i>, 2003
C-print
15 1/8 x 27 7/8 inches (38.4 x 70.8 cm)

The Oarsman (Permanent Collection), 2003
C-print
15 1/8 x 27 7/8 inches (38.4 x 70.8 cm)

<i>McDonald's II (Retail)</i>, 2000
C-print
50 x 60 inches (127 x 152.4 cm)

McDonald's II (Retail), 2000
C-print
50 x 60 inches (127 x 152.4 cm)

<i>KFC (Retail)</i>, 2000
C-print
50 x 60 inches (127 x 152.4 cm)

KFC (Retail), 2000
C-print
50 x 60 inches (127 x 152.4 cm)

Tim Davis

Tim Davis was born in Blantyre, Malawi (1969) and lives and works in Tivoli, New York. His work has been extensively exhibited in the United States and Europe. Davis' most recent body of work, The Upstate New York Olympics, is the artist's personal and often humorous investigation of the cultural impact of competitive sports. Exploring his local Hudson Valley landscape, Davis invents new sporting events, like the “Lawn Jockey Leap Frog and the “Trash Day Knife Toss,” and then performs them for the video camera, where as the only athlete he lacks competition. Davis acts like an athlete but doesn’t look like one, and these games often involve a healthy amount of trespassing instead of overblown pomp and circumstance. Shot in HD video with the thoroughness of his still photographs, the actual events are sincere attempts to interact with an underseen landscape and comic commentary on the seemingly arbitrariness of the actual Olympics.

The photographs in Davis’ body of work, The New Antiquity, were made over five years, in the suburbs of great and ancient capitals, in Italy and China, and then along the eastern seaboard of the United States. They portray a world where layers of time are collapsed. New buildings and structures and objects seem to be decaying into what Davis calls “a soon to be ancient past. Intended as a complex and open-ended work of “creative non-fiction,” the pictures in this body of work, made with a large-format camera, are both beautifully clear and vehemently obscure.

Tim Davis received a B.A. from Bard College (where he currently teaches), an M.F.A. from Yale University. Solo exhibitions include Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY; Jay Jopling / White Cube, London; the Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL. Several monographs of his work have been published including, The New Antiquity and Permanent Collection. He is the recipient of the 2007-2008 Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize and the 2005 Leopold Godowsky Jr. Color Photography Award. His work is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Guggenheim Museum, and The Walker Art Center, among many others.

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