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Timothy Siciliano
Bio/CV | website
Limited Edition Prints Collaboration
Timothy's Artistic Journey with Daniel Flores
Working with Mexican master printer, Daniel Flores, these two limited edition prints are produced in a traditional process of metal etching combined with aquatint and silkscreen. To produce these complex works, we used four metal plates, three layers of silkscreen, as well as aquatint to accomplish the desired effect. The collaboration with Daniel and his team spanned over three months at his print studio in Oaxaca, Mexico. Daniel is a well-known printmaker in Mexico and internationally recognized. These are limited edition prints, with only twelve copies of each.
The images in these two prints are based on two paintings that are part of a new body of work. This series considers duality, disguise, deception, and détente, as depicted by the military-esque characters that populate these prints and new paintings. This is Timothy’s first series of prints using these techniques.
Timothy’s connection to Oaxaca and Mexico spans nearly twenty-five years, though it is only recently that Timothy took up the project to produce these series of prints in Mexico. During the past two years, Timothy has visited Oaxaca and Mexico City to seek out new inspiration and techniques to influence his art. His work is represented by El Tingolado Grafico in Oaxaca as well as Studio e in Seattle. In addition to his studio in Seattle, he has recently set up a new studio in Mexico City.
EXHIBITIONS
Slouching Towards Possible Enlightenment
March 13 - April 10, 2021
Bio/CV | website
Limited Edition Prints Collaboration
Timothy's Artistic Journey with Daniel Flores
Working with Mexican master printer, Daniel Flores, these two limited edition prints are produced in a traditional process of metal etching combined with aquatint and silkscreen. To produce these complex works, we used four metal plates, three layers of silkscreen, as well as aquatint to accomplish the desired effect. The collaboration with Daniel and his team spanned over three months at his print studio in Oaxaca, Mexico. Daniel is a well-known printmaker in Mexico and internationally recognized. These are limited edition prints, with only twelve copies of each.
The images in these two prints are based on two paintings that are part of a new body of work. This series considers duality, disguise, deception, and détente, as depicted by the military-esque characters that populate these prints and new paintings. This is Timothy’s first series of prints using these techniques.
Timothy’s connection to Oaxaca and Mexico spans nearly twenty-five years, though it is only recently that Timothy took up the project to produce these series of prints in Mexico. During the past two years, Timothy has visited Oaxaca and Mexico City to seek out new inspiration and techniques to influence his art. His work is represented by El Tingolado Grafico in Oaxaca as well as Studio e in Seattle. In addition to his studio in Seattle, he has recently set up a new studio in Mexico City.
EXHIBITIONS
Slouching Towards Possible Enlightenment
March 13 - April 10, 2021
Le Général Lapin Considère Sa Défaite
(The Rabbit General Considers His Fate) 2025
Metal etching, aquatint and silkscreen on paper, Edition of 12
Image size 24 x 20 in., paper size 30 x 25.5 in.
Produced at Grafica Zanate, Oaxaca Mexico
$800
(The Rabbit General Considers His Fate) 2025
Metal etching, aquatint and silkscreen on paper, Edition of 12
Image size 24 x 20 in., paper size 30 x 25.5 in.
Produced at Grafica Zanate, Oaxaca Mexico
$800
Le Déjeuner Avant La Détente
(The Lunch Before the Detente) 2025
Metal etching, aquatint and silkscreen on paper, Edition of 12
Image size 22 x 30 in., paper size 28 x 35.25 in.
Produced at Grafica Zanate, Oaxaca Mexico
$1200
(The Lunch Before the Detente) 2025
Metal etching, aquatint and silkscreen on paper, Edition of 12
Image size 22 x 30 in., paper size 28 x 35.25 in.
Produced at Grafica Zanate, Oaxaca Mexico
$1200
Slouching Towards Possible Enlightenment
March 13 - April 10, 2021 Press Release:
Georgetown’s studio e gallery delivers a jolt to the solar plexus with the March 13 – April 10, 2021 exhibit of new work by Seattle artist Timothy Siciliano. “Slouching Towards Possible Enlightenment” invites us to enter a waking dream, or nightmare. The work forces a reckoning with the transgressive aspects of our inner selves, those aspects we would rather turn away from but that nonetheless beckon us. Siciliano’s technical mastery and gorgeous palette ease us into the imagery. However, upon focusing, we find ourselves in the disturbances, unable to look away. This is the power of the work – at some point the question of “What is going on here?” becomes “How do I look at this work?”
While his earlier works addressed the AIDS crisis that decimated the specific population of gay men, this current work expresses the unconscious realms our entire population now inhabits. After four horrific years of social and political turmoil, we continue to suffer the effects of the COVID pandemic. As Siciliano explains, “I believe this new body of work is a visceral exploration of these past four years and particularly this past year. The displacement of norms. The praise of dishonesty. The beauty in cruelty. The rot of common decency. All of this has besmirched our newly imprisoned lives.
The new work, 2018 - 2021, continues the exploration and evolution of the personal and political themes Siciliano has focused on throughout his career. The paintings draw us in, seduce us with their beauty and DayGlo drama, but we then reel backwards as we discern the specific assaultive images. As Siciliano reflects, “People love to watch horror movies, but they don’t want to look at horror paintings.” This work brilliantly reiterates Siciliano’s themes of disconnection, violation, isolation, and pain, while penetrating the false narrative of a neatly ordered and reasonable world.
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