Tim Stone
“I am creating a painterly language emphasizing the hybridization
between our physical and digital experiences. I physically replicate,
imitate, and mimic digital languages to express how confusing and lost
it can be to operate in a world that is both super connected and
isolating, mediated through a screen. The algorithmic ways of
processing information through coding and keywords seems rather
abstract to me, even unintentional or misunderstood. My work sutures
digital efficiency and painterly inefficiency through physical marks and
colors that are rambunctious, fiery, and ambiguous in their affect. There
is tension between the ordinary and the superlative, and between what
is natural and artificial. I am examining how bemusedly liminal our
physical and digital spaces have become.”
Tim Stone is originally from Hutchinson, KS. He graduated from Wichita State University
in 2012 with a BFA in Painting. In 2014, he began instructing classes at Mark Arts and attended
a drawing marathon at the New York Studio School of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture. In
2016, he began teaching Life Drawing Studio at Wichita State University and until 2018 he was
an instructor at Bethany College in Lindsborg, KS. He was included in the book Wichita Artists
In Their Studios by Sondra Langel and Larry Schwarm and reviewed by Curt Clonts for KMUW’s
radio segment “An Artists Perspective”. He won first place in the 2021 Emerging Artists Showcase put on by the Wichita State Art & Design Advocates. In 2022 he was in the group show
Painting at The University of Central Arkansas’ Baum Gallery. Tim earned his MFA in Painting
from Wichita State in 2022. His work can be seen locally at Emprise Bank and online at trishhigginsfineart.com, timstone.studio, and reubensaundersgallery.com He is represented by
Reuben Saunders Gallery.