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.
tim
Comments (13)
groegnitram
absolutly amazing, such a gorgeous exciting place this is, i dont know where to look first, love it, tim!
vintorix
First I have to say that the avatar name is a little dull, november22, what is that? Rather lame when "PrintMaster" is free and available. It is possible to change alias you know, all threads and gallerys stay in touch. Then we have another problem, what kind of movement shall we associate with Tim's work? ? I propose "third generation Abstract Expressionism". He breaks all the rules. No focal point. No statement from the artist. Tim’s printings tease the imagination, making you WANT to find shapes, meaning, and figures whether they’re really there or not. Notice how he in this print has minimized blending and created depth and 3-dimensionality despite a non-representational style. Sophisticated and elegant. Very fashionable. To zoom in is a must. Thanks to the large image, others are so staccono!
ARTWITHIN
I love your symbols and signs, Tim. ;) It's wonderful that you are resolving things with this series. It will open you further to future works. This series has been such a pleasure to view, Tim. Thanks very much.
blankfrancine
Reminds me of an aboriginal rock painting! Lovely colors and textures.
helanker
This is so beautiful. Reminds me of a holiday I had in Sweeden. We were in a big forest full of stones with moss in many wondeful colors. This is such a beautiful peace of art.
2Loose2Trek
Very cool reticulated/metallic looks to this. I like it.
Marinette
Lovely colors and textures.:)
anaber
Nowhere/Somewhere,that´s what come to mind("toc-toc"!!looks like a map!of the earth) With zoom we can see the signs and the craked textures in burned tones and the craked blue glass-BEAUTIFUL.I Like this. well,is intrincate as it should be!
tetsu-pino
Fantastic color image!! Splendid artistic work!!
JackSprat
It reminds me of looking through an electron microscope at a slice of metal, but with much more color and texure. 5+
anahata.c
sorry I'm getting to this so late, I'm just now getting to comments...I can see symbols in yellow, underneath, like hints of deeper realities, maybe even mathematical or deep cultural symbols (archetypes), but the rest of it is like a surface broken up by infinite life—and at that, life of the most primal variety. All kinds of colonies spreading out, all kinds of furrows everywhere, almost a sense of the cave drawings of places like Lascaux, with their mythic elongated figures. And a sense that life-force & energies have not only grown on 'top' of these symbols, but grown in symbiosis with them. (For example, one starburst's center seems to flow right into the surface growths; that pink center is like the surface meeting the starburst, they're in symbiosis. Hope what I just wrote made sense...) More essential process from you, more organic flow, as if we're looking at the substrata of process, or maybe just the primal forms of life themselves. You do this so very well, and this is one of your most active images in that way. This surface is teeming with forms and emanations as you have your eye on the primal forces...really fine work in every way.
Burpee
Lovely colors! I'm not deep and medatative so I only see the surface and that surface is beautiful.
ekatz
i just love this