Timothy Cummings The Great Escape

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TIMOTHY CUMMINGS "The Great Escape" October 21 - November 28, 2006 Opening Reception for the Artist, Saturday, October 21, 4 - 6 pm

Timothy Cummings, Mother as a Queen Dreaming She's a Hilltop, 2006, acrylic on panel, 10 x 8 inches	Timothy Cummings, The Chosen One, 2006, acrylic on panel, 24 x 36 inches	Timothy Cummings, Young Actor, 2006, acrylic on panel, 24 x 18 inches
October is the artist's favorite time of year, capped with Halloween when people festoon themselves in costumes, dress up in out-of-character guises, and transform themselves from their everyday personae into something new, exotic, unexpected. "The Great Escape" title takes this concept as its springboard and invites the viewer on a journey of escape into an exotic world where people in Cummings's drama change from humans to part animal or plant.

Timothy Cummings, Sagitarius, 2006, acrylic on panel, 14 x 11 inches	Timothy Cummings, Legacy, 2006, acrylic on panel, 24 x 18 inches	Timothy Cummings, Music, 2006, acrylic on panel, 24 x 36 inches
Infused with the "stuff" of fairy tales, vampires and voodoo, danger and adventure become characters in the artist's scenarios. For Cummings, escape also signifies escape from the real world into the world of dreams, into the subconscious, into the mind and imagination.

	OIDINE video directed by Aaron Plant Timothy Cummings Shane Francis 2005
Included in the exhibition is the artist's first video showing in New York, a collaborative effort with Aaron Plant and Shane Francis, entitled "Iodine," about a young girl who lives in a fantasy world, her private sanctum. She performs a make-believe facelift on her younger brother, she makes herself into an animal by attaching hair to her face, and she shaves the family dog and ultimately is sucked under the bed--a common fear of all children.
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