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Tim Kent

Bird's Eye View

2025 | Oil on shaped canvas

Through presenting simplified illustrations of color in a realistic context, my work communicates with the audience on a primitive, yet, striking level. The surface of a plane, the edge, and interior, all create an important avenue for discovery and uncovering meaning and transformation. My work uses the space and volume of the canvas as chiseling tools to give an understanding of color in relation to the form they’re on. By exaggerating conventional light sources with paint, the installations offer real-life ‘filters’ similar to social media or Photoshop.

While my artwork typically draws inspiration from geometric patterns popular in street art, “Bird’s Eye View” is undeniably modeled after the inspirational architecture of Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Each shaped canvas is one of a kind and hand built in my studio using traditional canvas building techniques. The overall design features unique polygonal forms coming together in an aperture formation, surrounding the octagonal canvas. However you interpret the central canvas will determine how you view the installation. Is it a top down view of the Stadium? A Falcon’s eye? A button? The only question now is what do you see -

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Tim Kent

Tim Kent

Atlanta, GA

Tim Kent (b. 1991 Atlanta, GA) received a BFA in Painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, in 2014. Kent’s work features stretched canvas as a sculptural medium. His three-dimensional work focuses on bringing space and volume to geometric patterns prominent throughout Street Art. Kent has exhibited at Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Hamptons Fine Art Fair, and is published in New American Paintings. He has shown in several exhibitions throughout the United States and is the recipient of an Alumni Atelier Artist Residency at Savannah College of Art and Design (2017). His installations have also been used in several client’s regional/national marketing campaigns. Since founding a pop-up gallery in Lenox Square, Kent has worked with art consultants and galleries to create large format installations for corporations and collectors located in: Manhattan, Silicon Valley, Miami, Atlanta, Jacksonville, Savannah, Austin, Phoenix, Kansas City, Boston and Ontario.

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