Timothy Harding
Artist Statement
This work plays off of and manipulates the foundations of abstract painting. Everything
from the supports and tools to the elements of painting are uprooted from their traditional
roles and merged with the methods and practices of sculpture, drawing, and installation.
Works contain references to formal elements of abstract expressionism, minimalism, and
light and space. Characteristics such as gestural marks, grids, flat paint applications and
lighting systems act as subjects to be distorted by processes of cutting, crushing, warping,
and collapsing.
Here, traditional pictorial space comes into conversation with three-dimensional
architectural space. Resulting works display an ambiguous objecthood addressing the
beholder on a phenomenological and conceptual level.
CV
Education
MFA 2010 Painting Texas Christian University School of Art
BFA 2008 Painting Texas Woman’s University (magna cum laude)
Selected Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2014 “New Paintings”, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
Two-Person: Timothy Harding, Shelby David Meier
Two Pad Stack, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
Two-person: Timothy Harding, Devon Nowlin
2013 The Landscape is Motorized, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
Two-person: Timothy Harding, Gregory Ruppe
2012 Four Lefts and a Right, Clyde Wells Performing Arts Center – Tarleton State University,
Stephenville, TX
Falloff, Art Corridor, Tarrant County College-Southeast Campus, Arlington, TX
Two-Person: Kris Pierce, Timothy Harding
Putting Humpty Dumpty Back Together, Big Medium, Austin TX
Frame Count, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
Two-Person: Christopher Blay, Timothy Harding2011 Omitted, Box13 Art Space, Window-Box Gallery, Houston, TX
That Dog Don’t Hunt, Fort Worth Community Arts Center Focus Gallery #2, Fort Worth,
TX
A Certain Shade of the Aftermath, Gallery 76102, Fort Worth, TX
Curator: Christopher Blay, artist
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014 Drawn In/Drawn Out, Grace Museum, Abilene, TX
Curators: Judy Deaton, Chief Curator Grace Museum, Patrick Kelly, Director Old Jail
Center
Art For Advocacy Auction, F.I.G. Gallery, Dallas, TX
Private Practice, ArtSpace 111, Fort Worth, TX
Ripe Produce: 500X Member Exhibition, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
2013 Acceleration, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX
Curator: Lilia Kudelia, adjunct curator Dallas Contemporary
MacGuffin, AndX Art Space, Fort Worth, TX
Quickly Connected, Half Burned, Texas Biennial, Central Trak, Dallas, TX
Dallas Aurora, Dallas Arts District, Dallas, TXAmarillo Entropy, The Power Station, Dallas, TX
500X Member Exhibition, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
Post Communiqué, DallasSITES: Available Space, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Summer Camp, Cohn Drennan Contemporary, Dallas, TX
Surface and Mark, H. Paxton Moore Fine Art Gallery, El Centro College, Dallas, TX
The Color Black: A Conversation in Three Parts, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
Art Center 10 Invitational, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX
Selected Press
Peter Simek, “For a Few Hours, Aurora Turned the Dallas Arts District Into the City Center It’s
Meant to Be”, D Magazine (October 21, 2013)
Ashley Stull, “Homecoming! Committee’s Post Communiqué at the Dallas Museum of Art”,
dailyserving.com, (August 13, 2013)
Danielle Georgiou, “The Color Black: A Conversation in Three Parts at 500X”, glasstire.com,
(June 2, 2013)
Lucia Simek, “Gregory Ruppe and Timothy Harding: The Landscape is Motorized at 500X”,
glasstire.com, (May 14, 2013)
This work plays off of and manipulates the foundations of abstract painting. Everything
from the supports and tools to the elements of painting are uprooted from their traditional
roles and merged with the methods and practices of sculpture, drawing, and installation.
Works contain references to formal elements of abstract expressionism, minimalism, and
light and space. Characteristics such as gestural marks, grids, flat paint applications and
lighting systems act as subjects to be distorted by processes of cutting, crushing, warping,
and collapsing.
Here, traditional pictorial space comes into conversation with three-dimensional
architectural space. Resulting works display an ambiguous objecthood addressing the
beholder on a phenomenological and conceptual level.
CV
Education
MFA 2010 Painting Texas Christian University School of Art
BFA 2008 Painting Texas Woman’s University (magna cum laude)
Selected Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2014 “New Paintings”, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
Two-Person: Timothy Harding, Shelby David Meier
Two Pad Stack, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
Two-person: Timothy Harding, Devon Nowlin
2013 The Landscape is Motorized, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
Two-person: Timothy Harding, Gregory Ruppe
2012 Four Lefts and a Right, Clyde Wells Performing Arts Center – Tarleton State University,
Stephenville, TX
Falloff, Art Corridor, Tarrant County College-Southeast Campus, Arlington, TX
Two-Person: Kris Pierce, Timothy Harding
Putting Humpty Dumpty Back Together, Big Medium, Austin TX
Frame Count, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
Two-Person: Christopher Blay, Timothy Harding2011 Omitted, Box13 Art Space, Window-Box Gallery, Houston, TX
That Dog Don’t Hunt, Fort Worth Community Arts Center Focus Gallery #2, Fort Worth,
TX
A Certain Shade of the Aftermath, Gallery 76102, Fort Worth, TX
Curator: Christopher Blay, artist
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014 Drawn In/Drawn Out, Grace Museum, Abilene, TX
Curators: Judy Deaton, Chief Curator Grace Museum, Patrick Kelly, Director Old Jail
Center
Art For Advocacy Auction, F.I.G. Gallery, Dallas, TX
Private Practice, ArtSpace 111, Fort Worth, TX
Ripe Produce: 500X Member Exhibition, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
2013 Acceleration, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX
Curator: Lilia Kudelia, adjunct curator Dallas Contemporary
MacGuffin, AndX Art Space, Fort Worth, TX
Quickly Connected, Half Burned, Texas Biennial, Central Trak, Dallas, TX
Dallas Aurora, Dallas Arts District, Dallas, TXAmarillo Entropy, The Power Station, Dallas, TX
500X Member Exhibition, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
Post Communiqué, DallasSITES: Available Space, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Summer Camp, Cohn Drennan Contemporary, Dallas, TX
Surface and Mark, H. Paxton Moore Fine Art Gallery, El Centro College, Dallas, TX
The Color Black: A Conversation in Three Parts, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
Art Center 10 Invitational, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX
Selected Press
Peter Simek, “For a Few Hours, Aurora Turned the Dallas Arts District Into the City Center It’s
Meant to Be”, D Magazine (October 21, 2013)
Ashley Stull, “Homecoming! Committee’s Post Communiqué at the Dallas Museum of Art”,
dailyserving.com, (August 13, 2013)
Danielle Georgiou, “The Color Black: A Conversation in Three Parts at 500X”, glasstire.com,
(June 2, 2013)
Lucia Simek, “Gregory Ruppe and Timothy Harding: The Landscape is Motorized at 500X”,
glasstire.com, (May 14, 2013)
