Tim Best Photography

Dallas Arts Salon Review

Deep thanks and gratitude out to Marla Bane of Dallas Arts Salon for her piece on my work! Review

Portraiture by Alice Neel

Just discovered the work of Alice Neel today and found out that I missed her retrospective at MFAH. I’ll have to keep my eye out for her work. It’s totally nutso incredible! Her portraits are confrontations of humanity but make you wonder what is going on behind the eyes of her subjects. When I look [...]

Drama and Journalism

Having studied the use of art as propaganda in my college years I have often wondered about the use of drama in journalism. When I watch major cable news they seem more like a theatre production where the facts take a back-seat and the ‘story’ is priority. This sounds fine until the drama and emotion [...]

faces

Faces are the ultimate abstract narrative! Seen here at the Museum of Modern Art “Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present

Classic

Modern Ruin on NPR’s Marketplace

NPR’s Marketplace piece on Modern Ruin in Dallas on Sunday 2/21/2010. I participated by using the space as a stage and making some performance-scape photographs. I also had my cast bronze coins with bite-marks as a check of authenticity…

Sheep, Sharks, and Nightlights exhibition photos.

Here are the images for the Sheep, Sharks, and Nightlights. show at 500x Feb 2010. Click on image for enlarged view.

Modern Ruin

MODERN RUIN February 20-21, 2010 Opening Reception: Saturday, February 20, 8-11pm FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On Thursday, September 25, 2008 the U.S. Government took over Washington Mutual, selling most of it to JPMorgan Chase. Roughly a year earlier, at the height of a frenzied economic bubble, Washington Mutual began building a new 1 million dollar branch [...]

New Work

Click on image to see full size. Finished images are 34″ x 34″ inches up to 48″ x 48″, mounted on diebond with an aluminum cleat. Five images will be on display at 500x gallery from February 6th to February 28th. Opening reception will be February 6th from 7-10pm.

More from the zeitgeist.

Again, what I like about this is the isolation of the figure. The focus is on the figure, the figure’s gestures, voice, clothes, that all carry meaning and support the dialogue.