Etched aluminum, 2014. 910x920 mm; 36x36 1/4 inches. Etched signature and date "Year 2014, July 12", upper right.
Provenance: collection of the artist, Los Angeles.
Exhibited: Timothy Washington, Pucker Up, Salon 94, New York, March 5 - April 25, 2020.
This powerful self-portait is a contemporary continuation of Timothy's Washington's innovative technique. Washington first exhibited 11 of his etched panels in the LACMA exhibtion Three Graphic Artists in 1968. Organized by LACMA curator Joseph E. Young, this landmark exhibition showed graphic works of Timothy Washington, David Hammons and Charles White. The twenty three-year old had just graduated from the Chouinard Art Insitute two years earlier. Washington showed his assemblage work, drawings and sculpture at the Brockman Gallery, Gallery 32 and Wylan Gallery in Los Angeles through the 1970s.
This important body of work is finally being recognized nationally. Several of his works first were included in the influential 2011 Tilton Gallery exhibiton L. A. Object & David Hammons Body Prints. Then the Los Angeles artist finally had his first solo museum exhibition Love Thy Neighbor at the California Craft & Folk Art Museum in 2014. His 1970 etched panels were also included in the hugely influential Tate Modern 2018-2020 traveling exhibition Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power.
