About — TIMOTHY SCHMITZ

TIMOTHY SCHMITZ

Biography

b. 1964

Timothy Schmitz creates objects of beauty and contemplation. Schmitz initiated himself into the art world as a ceramicist. His ceramic vessels and objects combined with highly process oriented finishes, earned the attention of LewAllen galleries, which presented his first solo exhibition in 1995. The success of this work along with his interest in surfaces has led the artist to begin working with two-dimensional and three-dimensional works.

Highly process-oriented, he has always experimented with non-traditional methods. Schmitz suggests the myriad of materials he currently works with lend itself, technically, to a much wider field of experimentation, to create works, defying classification as either painting or sculpture.

Schmitz recent work is minimalist in concept but complex in technique. His art is distinguished by its understated expressiveness. Suffused in his work is a refined sense of the Japanese aesthetic notion that beauty comes from the visually modest and humble. There is a quiet grace in his current work, a purging of the extraneous and a reduction to visual essence. The luminescence and reductive elegance of his work still the mind and enable contemplative insight transcending simple intellectual conception.

Actively collected, both nationally and internationally, and is in numerous corporate and private collections across the country. He continues to work prolifically in Minneapolis, MN.

Timothy Schmitz Resume

2021 Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne, Germany

Circa Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM

2020 “Lately” Circa Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

“Monochromos” Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne, Germany

LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM

2019 “Nouveau” Circa Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

“Small Works Show” Circa Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM

2018 LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM

2017 LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM

2016 LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM

LewAllen Galleries, Scottsdale, AZ

2015 LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM

LewAllen Galleries, Scottsdale, AZ

2014 LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM

LewAllen Galleries, Scottsdale, AZ

2013 “Six Rising Stars” LewAllen Galleries, Scottsdale, AZ

LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM

2012 LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM

2011 LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

2010 “When Things Surface” solo, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

2009 LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

2008 LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

2007 “Luminosity” solo, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM