Tim Bavington has just unveiled his first sculptural work on permanent display in Las Vegas called Pipe Dream.
For over ten years, the City of Las Vegas has been working toward the grand opening of the Smith Center for the Performing Arts. With over 2,600 construction workers overseeing its development, the approximately $425 million venue will be a cultural focal point for both its sponsoring city and the state of Nevada. In consulting more than twenty-five designers and architects, the lead design team placed great emphasis on promoting creative integrity and innovation within the public space. Upon being approached to create a mural for the venue’s Symphony Park, Tim Bavington instead proposed a major site-specific sculpture derived from American classical composer Aaron Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man.”
As a seminal practicing artist in the city, Bavington’s first major sculptural work bespeaks his longstanding relationship to Las Vegas. Titled “Pipe Dream (Fanfare for the Common Man),” the unique work translates the artist’s renown canvases into a three-dimensional composition.
Spanning eighty-six feet long and twenty-seven feet tall, a carefully fabricated selection of 128 steel pipes accompany an indoor painting – titled “Fanfare (for the Common Man)” (2012). Both artworks reference the bold palette of the Vegas strip as well as its sensational mood, while also acting as homages to the great tradition of the American symphony.
Tim Bavington
Music is the genesis of Tim Bavington’s paintings. Through synthetic polymer paint, Bavington acts as a translator between the aural and the visual as he transforms guitar solos, melodies and bass lines into vertical bands of color. Tracks from bands such as The Darkness, Oasis and The Rolling Stones become vibrant bands of color, and bridge compositional concepts between seemingly unlike disciplines. Although Bavington has a method that designates sound to color and composition, the paintings are not literal translations; they remain open to intuition and decision-making, allowing for a distinct artistic presence.
Tim Bavington (born 1966, England) received his BFA from the Art Center (CA) before making the permanent move to Las Vegas, where he completed his MFA at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (NV). His work is included in the public collections of Fredrick R. Weisman Collection (CA), Albright-Knox Art Gallery (NY), Creative Artists Agency (CA), Joslyn Art Museum (NE), Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (CA), Portland Art Museum (OR), United Talent Agency (CA), Vivendi Universal (CA), Palm Springs Art Museum (CA), Denver Art Museum (CO) and The Museum of Modern Art (NY).
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