TIM HAWKINSON, (B. 1960)

S.A.K Comp. 1, 2004

S.A.K Comp. 1, 2004

signed, numbered and dated 'Tim Hawkinson 2004 1' (on the reverse)
binder clips and craft paper on foam mounted on panel

17 1/2 x 11 5/8 in.
44.4 x 29.5 cm.

Provenance
The artist
Ace Gallery, Los Angeles
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Exhibited
Berlin, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tim Hawkinson, 8 October-27 November 2004

Literature
Hannah Barton, Tim Hawkinson Catalogue Raisonné, New York, Artifex Press, 2013-ongoing, no. 2004.12, online, illustrated

Tim Hawkinson is a master of combining the humble with the complex, the everyday with the profound and the playful with the serious. He uses found and common household materials and transforms them into complex, often kinetic, sculptures, systems and installations. Often using his own body as reference and tool, his work considers life and death, machines and nature, and physical form and consciousness. Finger Clock and Tape Measure Clock are virtuosic examples of his uncanny ability to create works that entice and repulse with their hijacked familiarity, but always with a simultaneous chuckle.

Belt with Aneurysms utilizes found and far-from-pristine materials, a nylon belt, metal shapes and combines them with a tragi-comic title and bright, childish colors in a provocative clash of emotions.

Hawkinson's invention and experimentation driven practice can showcase the most unexpected aspects and forgotten or discarded objects in daily life. Including a whole chicken skin in Untitled (Chicken) and binder clips in S.A.K. Comp. 1 and S.A.K. Comp. 2.

Sonic is a more recent bronze work, utilizing no found materials and executed in a traditional medium, but the idiosyncratic and somewhat grotesque composition of a life-size baby suspendered between oversize, wheel-like human ears shows that Hawkinson can instigate an intense emotional response in any media. In this work, as in many of his best, after the joke wears off, the viewer is left contemplating the deeper meanings of the human condition.

Tim Hawkinson was born in San Francisco, California, in 1960. He graduated from San Jose State University and went on to complete his MFA at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1989. Hawkinson has had solo presentations at museums worldwide and has participated the Venice Biennale (1999), the Whitney Biennial (2002), and the 2003 Corcoran Biennial in Washington, D.C. His works are included in the permanent collections of J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; San Jose Museum of Art; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Hawkinson was awarded of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for the Creative Arts in 2015.