Tim McCormick - illustrator, self-taught artist

Title: "Pitfalls of Modern Romance", acrylic on wood, 48" x 144" , 2004
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"About Tim McCormick (www.timmccormickart.com)

After 10yrs honing his abilities as an illustrator, self-taught artist Tim McCormick, a Southern California native, began exhibiting in 2001. Since 2001 Tim has shown extensively in galleries on the west coast and around the country, owned 2 galleries in San Diego, and has become a standout in the burgeoning Los Angeles/SoCAl art scene. Originality, skill, and wit coupled with one of the most prolific outputs of any artist anywhere Tim McCormick's reputation is moving swiftly throughout the new modern art world. In 2005, Tim is scheduled for gallery showings all over The U.S.

Statement:

'My work is in a constant state of evolution and experimentation. In spirit I've combine a type of figurative expressionism and surrealism in which every piece is improvised from a very loose plan or no plan at all. The true meanings remain totally personal, a kind of riddle I am telling myself, a riddle that often I don't even understand until I've had a chance to reflect on it. I've learned that my most successful work is painted with my heart and not my head, this is an approach I have worked endlessly to refine in my over 5000 paintings. Therefore my work conveys a certain state of consciousness in which I let myself do the painting with no guidelines or goals. only the experience I have at being in this state allows me to create a successful painting. I continue to elaborate and refine this approach driven by the desire to see just how far I can take it. I truly look forward to the paintings I will do in 10yrs - 20yrs and the rest of my life.'

My paintings explained: My newest work deals with the precarious nature of human relationships, especially those romantic ones. The Symbolism and pictorial content of the paintings are specific to my life and are not intended for literal interpretation, rather my goal is the viewer will relate the work to there own lives, through this understanding the universal them"