Tim Best
Tim Best - Value Added (installation view)
Artist Statement: Value Added
The bite marks in "Value Added" are meant to add human value to the bronze sculptures, like the value we assign to paper
and metal, which we use as money. There is an exchange between the material and action of the bite, which leaves an impression for the bronze to display forever.
The coins are part of an edition of 50, originally displayed in an installation for the 2009 exhibition Modern Ruin in Dallas, Texas. Each bronze coin is unique.
Artist Biography
Since graduating, from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a degree in Stuidio Arts, Tim Best has lived and
worked in Santa Fe, Chicago, and New Orleans before settling in Dallas, Texas. Working in photography, video, new media, performance, and sculpture, Tim Best's work has been included in venues in Boston, New Orleans, Chicago, Santa Fe, Memphis, New Orleans, and Dallas. His work has been published in The New Orleans Times Picayune and The Gambit, as well as the Commercial Appeal in Memphis. Best has participated as an artist in residence in the Louisiana Artworks National Artist Residency Program and Gallery 500x, a Dallas CO-OP. He has lectured at Rhodes College in Memphis and the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, and his work is in the permanent collection of Loyola University in New Orleans.
The bite marks in "Value Added" are meant to add human value to the bronze sculptures, like the value we assign to paper
and metal, which we use as money. There is an exchange between the material and action of the bite, which leaves an impression for the bronze to display forever.
The coins are part of an edition of 50, originally displayed in an installation for the 2009 exhibition Modern Ruin in Dallas, Texas. Each bronze coin is unique.
Artist Biography
Since graduating, from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a degree in Stuidio Arts, Tim Best has lived and
worked in Santa Fe, Chicago, and New Orleans before settling in Dallas, Texas. Working in photography, video, new media, performance, and sculpture, Tim Best's work has been included in venues in Boston, New Orleans, Chicago, Santa Fe, Memphis, New Orleans, and Dallas. His work has been published in The New Orleans Times Picayune and The Gambit, as well as the Commercial Appeal in Memphis. Best has participated as an artist in residence in the Louisiana Artworks National Artist Residency Program and Gallery 500x, a Dallas CO-OP. He has lectured at Rhodes College in Memphis and the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, and his work is in the permanent collection of Loyola University in New Orleans.
