Opener 31: Tim Davis — When We Are Dancing (I Get Ideas)

Tim Davis — When We Are Dancing (I Get Ideas) is a solo exhibition of recent work by Tim Davis, an artist, writer, and musician who makes photographs, video, drawings, sound, and installations among many other endeavors. Davis makes artwork that explores the intersection of humor and longing, where the ridiculous meets the sublime, and the abject aligns with the beautiful in unexpected ways.  Davis has what writer Charlie Finch calls, “a dead-on ability to capture the simple enticements of random objects.”  Davis’s artistic practice, regardless of medium, is united by a thirst for collecting and a desire to help reveal the universal and ubiquitous nature of narrative-building. Having begun his career as an artist with a career as a poet, Davis is accustomed to the idea of the sudden onset project, the need to make something for an occasion or a season, and Tim Davis — When We Are Dancing (I Get Ideas) amounts to a set of collections, each beginning with a sudden insight, and boring down into the bedrock of obsession. Three videos form the center of the show, each staring hard into the margins of the artistic process.