I have been an artist in photography, video art & performance art, and since 1994 in printmaking showing in regional, national and international exhibits. My work of the last few years has involved the exploration of photography and printmaking as a hybrid medium of expression. The work isn't contained within a genre, although landscape and still life studies dominate, but shows concern with texture, the hand manipulation of the image and surface.Â
  For me photography is another way to create images. My Dad gave me a 35 mm camera when I was 11, as I was constantly 'borrowing' his whenever I could get my hands on it; when I was 13 I entered my first photography contest.
  Later all through Viet Nam and four years in the military I carried a camera - both as a way of interpreting what was happening to me and those around me, and to distance myself from it.
  I exhibited photography off and on until I began a career in cinematography and video in the late seventies and received a Master of Art in 1979 from the University of Missouri-KC. I taught mediated communications at Haskell Indian Nations University and later at Northern Illinois University. By 1986, bored with documentaries and commercial video production and seeking to return to the single image, I started a graduate program in studio art, while keeping my day job of producing educational programs in the arts. I found myself taking addition course-work in photography and worked with traditional printmakers in documenting their workshops and classes.
  Upon gaining my MFA, I a took a course in printmaking, and it was a zen moment in the studio: working the plates, inking, pulling prints. A wholly different tradition of the single image, a completely new toolset for me drew me. This was in 1992, and led to 18 hours of post-grad work with intaglio and relief techniques and many more hours with David Driesbach of Miracle Press who for years was the finest example of a person and an artist I'm sure I will ever know; for over a decade he invited me in to document the activities of Miracle Press and the yearly week long master printmaking sessions - his humor and technical skill shows me the way still.
  In 2002 I picked up a digital camera, mostly to record textures I found in wood, stone, mud, and textiles as references in printmaking, and I started thinking immediately about photography from the point of view of a printmaker.
  So I feel that I finally understand enough about the images that I respond to, and most importantly about the images I need to make, to take the journey as photographer and printmaker. Artistic life is full circle, I'm back to that happy kid seeing things truly for the first time in the view finder and the mind's eye, revealed on the plate and paper.
www.timburns-art.com for other work and background information; this functions as an on-line portfolio for me.
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Comments (15)
ARTWITHIN
After looking at this for a while, I feel as though I'm standing under a circle of trees, looking up through a circular opening. Beams of light flow through, and I'm carried away far beyond. Absolutely beautiful, Tim.
helanker
WOW I like this one very much. Excellent Image.
vintorix
It is obvious that it is a map of Alexandria Port - (one of the oldest ports of the world), I see the lighthouse and the library clearly, and hints of the royal palace. Where else is the sea so blue except in the Mediterranean? The gold finish must be a hint of the great treasure buried there. In Stockholm the surest sign that you 'belong' is that you are the proud owner of one of these fashionable digitally printed acrylic paintings.
ArtPearl
Very beautiful -searching for the treasures of autumn with a magnifying glass.
anaber
Your blue sky is intricate for me...i ask myself why?:Strong brush-strokes doing a circle on a stout but bright yellow like sun; from behind, a perfect circle,very smoothly half-shady with a brillant white,like moon;Between them i see bright and golden textures,like clouds;bellow the surface an intense golden burned like natural strutures.All this and blue tones. It´s perfect and so,so beautiful.
Netterad
Excellent! I thought it was a old mirror.... Very beautiful! :o)
nikolais
oh fabulous!
ekatz
awesome
anahata.c
I feel an affinity with your work, I just don't do it with the consummation you have! (Over and over, I might add)...Reading the comments one can see that this evokes many concrete 'scenes', but it's also about process itself, ie, organic forms, rhythms, music: It's the care you give to each detail & the music you make with all of them together that makes your work what it is. It's a blue sky, but you have so much activity in and around it; you even do your borders with lots of activity & interaction (something I've always taken to in your work). The white area feels perfect, the large circle is plain intuition to me, ie, I don't even need to know what it represents because it just fits...and the upper circle kind of reflects the 'clear' one below. You even have the organic process infiltrating the top border and parts of the side...it feels meditative in the way meditation sees everything as sheer process & matter and reveals a kind of atomic 'dance' underneath. This feels like an archetypal "tim" piece, it's wonderful & I echo all the above...
kasalin
Nice title and a awesome composition my friend !!! Love the colours :):):) 5*
prutzworks
cool abstract
Marinette
AWESOME!!!!:)
tetsu-pino
Great artistic image!! I feel...Bule sky and dark clouds. Great work!!
foreverdisturbed
cool, now i know why you like my metal pictures. Thanks for the comment.
popeslattz
Excellent piece of work. Cool process and great results. You have a very interesting and unique gallery.