TIM FORCUM
Complications of Nature

March 8 – April 12, 2008

d.e.n. contemporary art is pleased to announce Tim Forcum’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Forcum will present new paintings in Complications of Nature, on view beginning March 8 and continuing through April 12, 2008.

The exhibition includes oil paintings, which suggest visual parables, mirroring the complexity in and navigation through systems of human relationships. The imagery serves as an optical invitation for the viewer to meander through a matrix of multilayered systems incorporating sinuous line work and solid, bold shapes. The swirling energy of the line, sometimes probing and tentative, other times lyrical and easy, takes the eye for a journey, an experience akin to listening to the improvisatory route in a musical composition.

In Forcum’s new series of paintings, he advances a straightforward graphic application of paint resulting in a complex pictorial reality. As in his earlier work, the human touch of a painted line and surface remain evident, yet the abraded process is more subdued in these new works. The energy of the paint handling has been subsumed and solidified towards a conceptual investigation into the complications of nature.

About the Artist
Forcum was born and raised in southern California and is presently based in Los Angeles. He received his M.F.A. in 1993 from California State University, Fullerton, and received both a B.A. and M.A. in painting from California State University, Northridge, where he currently is teaching fine art.

The artist reception will be held Saturday, March 8, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. Complications of
Nature will be on view through April 12. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, from 11:00-5:30. For additional information or to request visual material, contact the gallery at (310) 559-3023 or info@dencontemporaryart.com