Tim Gardner’s hyper-realistic paintings are drawn from the commonplace: his brothers and friends involved in youthful revels often set in nature, for example.
Known for his watercolors, he also works in oils and pastels. Most of his paintings are based on snapshots obtained from friends and family, depictions of ordinary moments.
Tim Gardner: The Full Story on through April 2024 at the Winnipeg Art Gallery is the first retrospective and the largest exhibition of Gardner’s work, spanning 30 years and featuring over 130 artworks.
“Tim Gardner made his name in the early 2000s with paintings of young middle-class white guys, in backyards, in hotel rooms, sometimes on spring break,” writes Alison Gillmor in Galleries West magazine. “They drink, they eat junk food, they stuff beer cans down their pants, they run naked, they goof around.”
Gardner has exhibited his work internationally at such institutions as The National Gallery, London, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Kunsthalle Basel, and the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. His work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the National Gallery of Canada, among others.
On Instagram, here.
Winnipeg Art Gallery exhibition, here.
See more of his work at 303Gallery here.
Image at top of post: Tim Gardner. Venice Parking Lot, 2022. watercolour, 9.78 x 13.
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These look like photos… wow.
True. The hyper-realism is amazing, I agree.
Amazing.