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Tim Davis: My Life in Politics
August 18 — October 14, 2006
One People…, 2006
Grandma’s Pins, 2006
Tim Davis’ series My Life in Politics explores the political milieu in America with lush color and cool objectivity, depicting the detritus of our civic involvement as pop culture. Buttons, bumper stickers, cardboard cutouts and handmade signs compete with myriad other trappings of capitalism; peeks into presidential libraries and state legislatures offer banal glimpses into affairs of state. Davis offers little judgement and no partisanship, presenting the political landscape as divisive, muddled and unresolved.
Tim Davis studied photography at Bard College, graduating in 1991. He pursued a career as a poet and editor in New York before returning to photography, receiving an MFA from Yale University in 2001. He has since had solo shows in Brussels, Geneva, Whitecube in London, Milan, and New York, including a recent exhibition at the Bohen Foundation. His work is in the collections of the Guggenheim, Whitney, Brooklyn, and Metropolitan museums in New York; the Milwaukee Museum of Art, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, the Baltimore Museum, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Davis is the author of three books of photographs, My Life In Politics, from Aperture, Permanent Collection, published by Nazraeli, and Lots (Coromandel Express). He teaches photography at Bard College and is represented in New York by the Greenberg Van Doren Gallery.