Tozer, Tim

Born in 1969 in Portsmouth, UK, Tim attended the Winchester School of Art and the University of Ulster at Belfast, Northern Ireland. In 1994, Tim moved to the U.S. upon receiving the prestigious Andy Warhol Scholarship for study at the New York Academy of Art. After earning his MFA in painting, Tozer taught painting and drawing at Indiana University in Bloomington. He moved to Minneapolis in 2002 and currently teaches painting at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. Tim lives in south Minneapolis where he shares paints and brushes with his daughter, Hazel.

"My current work places two figures – dressing or undressing – in a vague outdoor setting. They co-habit a space bounded and divided by suggestions of nature and construction. The visual relationships between them and their surroundings – and the interruptions and inconsistencies therein – provide the only intentional narrative element.

These painted human forms allow me access to a metaphorical space – one derived from the act of painting as much as through the filters of memory or tradition. Any personalities, stories or places are only ever partially seen or known; their manifestation through configurations of shape and color are hemmed in by suggestion and assumption – a boundary broken only by the act of reconfiguring these decisions through looking."