Featured Artists: Curtis Hexner, Lily Timberlake, Josh Smith

Bio:

Lily Timberlake is an interdisciplinary artist, with a current focus on figurative painting, 35 mm photography, and tapestry style weaving. She has a BFA in Painting from the Kansas City Art Institute, graduating in 2018. From 2019-2020, she spent time living and working out of a small caravan in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales Australia. She currently resides in Austin, Texas with her partner, painter Christopher Miller, and their cattle dog Rio.

Artist Statement:

Most recently I have been focusing on figurative painting and intimate portraiture that draws from daily life, and domestic scenes. I’m interested in what is discovered when someone is sitting in front of me, so I often choose to paint from life. I find that people start to reveal themselves during a sitting. In my work I am grappling with the push-pull of the actual session with the person, and my time alone with the painting in my studio, which becomes a rumination on our time together from which something new is discovered. The dialogue created is a conversation between what is happening in the space, and the “after image” of what is left behind, talked about, or ingrained in memory. Memory is inherently fallible, and I’m interested in using it as a prompt for establishing a visual language. Textiles and pattern are beginning to reveal themselves as motifs in the work, and I am becoming interested how to merge that visual language with figuration.