The Omen Project | 2008
My artwork is a response and witness to the wars and violence of mankind. Fundamental to my work is my belief that we are essentially schizophrenic as a culture. In general the culture at large has seen itself as being separate from nature, even superior, separate from 'God' and thus inferior. As in the Iliad, the Odyssey and Romeo and Juliet the cultural arbiters have posited that man and specifically men are the lords of the earth with the rights of profit that this supposed ownership affords. Murder and theft are deemed the rights of power held by a few who see the rest as 'others' devoid of rights or sovereignty. Love is the folly of youth and subservient to power and the family/culture. In both this leads only to tragedy and loss of life. The destruction meted on others ultimately brings tragedy back on the houses of these lords of power. The only way out is for the hero to humble himself (king becomes 'no one,' Nemo, thus all) before nature/god and return to the one he himself truly loves.
Video Festivals
2008 Exquisite Corpse Project, Brazil
2008 "Optica 2008", international festival of video arts, Madrid, Spain
2008 "Optica 2008", international festival of video arts, Paris, France
2008 "Digital Fringe", international festival of digital arts, Melborne, Australia
2007 Story Tellers, group show of international video art, Primo Piano Livingallery, Lecce, Italy
2007 "The Man Show", Gitana Rosa Gallery, Broolyn, NY
2006 Pierogi Flatfile for videos, Brooklyn, NY
2006 "Optica 2006", international festival of video arts, Gijon, Spain
2006 Liverpool Bienneal Independents, 'Passion' at The Projection Gallery, Liverpool, England
2006 The 2nd annual "Pixel Pops!", at C2C gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2006 "METU Video Festival", Ankara, Turkey
2003 "Brave Destiny", International Surrealist Film Festival, WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY
Performance
2007 "Jared Withman Show", noise performance, Brooklyn, NY
2005 "Plush", noise performance, Brooklyn, NY
2005 "Noise! seen and unseen", noise performance, Ontological Theater, NY, NY
2004 "Falling Off The Earth", Cave, Brooklyn, NY
2002 "Dada Fest", SOMARTS, San Francisco, CA
2002 "Necropolis", Theater of Yugen, San Francisco, CA
2001 "Necropolis", Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco, CA
2001 "Dada Fest 2001", the Omen Project, SOMARTS, San Francisco, CA
2001 "Nowhere", Theater of Yugen / Noh Space, San Francisco, CA
2000 "NORCAL Noise Fest", with Gary Singh, Bo Jangles, Sacramento, CA
2000 "Dada Fest 2000", the Omen Project, SOMARTS, San Francisco, CA
1999 "Body of Light", The Lab, San Francisco, CA
1999 "the Messenger Service", Theater Artaud, San Francisco, CA
1999 High Voltage Capacitor, Yuerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA
1999 High Voltage Capacitor, Theater Artaud, San Francisco, CA
1997 Ape Theater Presents "Play Time", CCA Wattis ICA, San Francisco, CA
1994 "Ape Theater", Desert Site Works, Burning Man, Black Rock Desert, NV
1994 "7 Days", Desert Site Works, Burning Man, Black Rock Desert, NV
1994 Ape Theater Presents, "the Tree of Life", San Francisco, CA
1994 "Burning Man Presents", SOMARTS Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2004 BRIC Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2003 DUMBO General Store, Brooklyn, NY
1998 "Body of Light", Uff Galleria, Budapest, Hungary
Group Exhibitions
2004 Artists Space, NY, NY; "Night of 10,000 Drawings", benefit auction (sold)
2004 "Falling Off The Earth", Cave, Brooklyn, NY
2002 "Dada Fest 2002", SOMARTS, San Francisco, CA
1998 "Internal Drawing", Juried, (National Exhibition of Miniature Drawings, Budapest Autumn Festival), Nador Galeria, Budapest, Hungary
1998 "Anti Pessimism", Show N Tell, Nador Galleria, Budapest, Hungary
1997 "Art of Place", SFSU School of Creative Arts, Tiburon, CA
1996 "SF Street Theater Festival", Interactive Sculpture Garden, San Francisco, CA
1995 "Burning Man", Monumental 'tempera' earthwork , Black Rock Desert, NV
1995 "Show N Tell", Show N Tell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995 "Mission Sole", Juried, Collision Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1994 SFSU Sculpture Dept., Clay Studio, San Francisco, CA
1993 "Object",juror: Armando Rascon, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Awards
2004 Foundation For Contemporary Performance Arts, finishing grant
Bibliography
2009 Ninja-mag.com, January issue, Paris, France
1999 UFF Gallery 1997 -1999, Pub. Ujlak Foundation, Budapest, 1999, ISBN: 963 03 9111 2
1998 Internal Drawing, Pub. Belvarosi Muviszetek Tarsasaga, ISBN: 963 03 5970
Auteur :
Timothy Rollin Pickerill