Tim Cleary
Associate Professor
BFA Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
MFA Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
Tim Cleary grew up standing over a compass rose on the edge of Lake Michigan. Indeed, some say he is there, still. He painted as a child and has found various ways to maintain the habit, including but not limited to undergraduate degrees in painting and photography at Miami University and an MFA from Pratt Institute. He has received a range of grants, awards, and residencies as an artist and educator. Tim comes to Northern after finishing a Visiting Artist and Professor Residency at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He will be taking over the Drawing & Painting position in the School of Art & Design.
Tim plots the course of his artistic direction(s) with references to art history, perception, photography, phenomenology, abstraction, Gerhard Richter, meteorology, memory, Monet, Manet, minimalism, Mark Rothko, Modest Mouse, circadian rhythms, his grandfather, birds, Andrew Bird, cardinal directions, wind, atmosphere, the obliquity of the elliptic, e.e. cummings, Bertolt Brecht, Dana Saulnier, Willem DeKooning, his students, his teachers and travel… to name a few of the nameable. The aesthetics of an upcoming body of work will explore new forms through an investigation of structures and places associated with the mining of iron ore in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
EMAIL: tcleary@nmu.edu
WEBSITE: timclearyart.com
