Tim Guthrie
{{short description|American painter}}
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| birth_name = Timothy Sean Guthrie
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| birth_place = Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
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| known_for = Experimental film
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Timothy Sean Guthrie (born 1965 in Omaha, Nebraska) is a visual artist and experimental filmmaker. Guthrie's work is in collections throughout the United States, including the Boise Art Museum, and the Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Plemmons Collection of Contemporary Art, (Boone, North Carolina), and the Leigh Lane Edwards Collection of Contemporary Art, (Appalachian State University). Tim Guthrie gave a TEDxOmaha talk in October 2018 about An Artist's Journey Through Love and Loss.{{cite web|url=https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_guthrie_an_artist_s_journey_through_love_and_loss |title=An Artist's Journey Through Love and Loss|last=Guthrie|first=Tim|date=October 2018|website=ted.com|access-date=2022-03-06}} The talk focused on the death of his wife in 2015, and his grieving process, as well as the mini-documentary he created about her, called Missing Piece, which won numerous national and International awards. The works were also featured on the cover and in an article of Omaha Magazine.{{cite web |title=The Missing Piece and a Journey to Healing {{!}} Omaha Magazine|url=http://www.omahamagazine.com/2017/08/22/302441/the-missing-piece-and-a-journey-to-healing|access-date=2021-08-08|website=www.omahamagazine.com|language=en}}
He won a Top 25 MFA Sculptors in the Nation award from the International Sculpture Center and Sculpture Magazine, and worked on the Lied Jungle at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo, and he references both in a Creative Mornings talk where, among many projects, he also discusses working on the Lost City in Africa.{{Citation|title=Tim Guthrie|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8Zbp427mfE|language=en|access-date=2022-01-06}}
Collaborations
Guthrie collaborated with Lance Olsen, a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award for his novel Tonguing the Zeitgeist (Permeable Press,1994) on an interactive hypertext novel called 10:01, which was also published in the Electronic Literature Directory (Electronic Literature Organization){{cite web|title=10:01 Hypertext novel link|url=http://collection.eliterature.org/1/works/olsen_guthrie__10_01.html|work=Collection of eLiterature}}{{cite web|title=EL Biography|url=http://newhorizons.eliterature.org/biography.php@id=23.html|work=Electronic Literature}} and The Iowa Review - Web Edition. Guthrie also collaborated with Olsen on an experimental animation called "The Nature of the Creative Process", which was featured at &Now.[http://ndreview.nd.edu/archived-issues/ndr-19/ &Now]
Guthrie also has directed awarding winning films with Creighton University professors and students Backpack Journalism Project {{cite web|url=http://cubackpack.org|title=The Backpack Journalism Project: Bearing Witness |website=cubackpack.org|access-date=2022-03-06}}
Residencies and exhibitions
Guthrie has been an artist-in-residence places such as Ørslev Kloster (Denmark), The Tyrone Guthrie Centre (Ireland), New Pacific Studio[http://www.newpacificstudio.org/home/featured-artist.html New Pacific Studio] (New Zealand), and the Blue Mountain Center,{{cite web|title=Blue Notes|url=http://bluemountaincenter.org/sites/default/files/BlueNotes2010No28smaller.pdf|work=Blue Mountain Center}} (Blue Mountain, NY) and The Vermont Studio Center. He has also been awarded fellowships and grants (Nevada Arts Council,{{cite web|title=LXS - Legislative Exhibition Series|url=http://nac.nevadaculture.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1290:lxs-exhibition&catid=32:artist-services-program/|work=Nevada Arts Council}} Sierra Arts Foundation, Nebraska Arts Council, each funded by the National Endowment for the Arts). Other awards include a purchase award at the [http://www.the-square.org/ Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art]{{cite web|title=Anrode Memorial Shrine|url=http://the-square.pastperfect-online.com/38769cgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=81C7BC69-2159-4555-9348-869402672164;type=101|work=Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art object record}} and awards at "Conflicts: The Cult of War and the Culture of Peace - AniMOweb",[http://www.animoweb.it/documenti/shorts_english.asp AniMOweb] Modena, Italy, for the short film “Recalling Trinity" (IMDb),{{cite web|title=IMDb Recalling Trinity page|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1557680/|work=IMDb}} which was also included in the Hiroshima International Animation Festival, the Fort Omaha Film Conference,{{cite web|title=Short bio on Guthrie|url=http://www.mccneb.edu/theatreconference/biographies/tim_guthrie.asp|work=Great Plains Theatre Conference}} Film Streams{{cite web|title=RECALLING TRINITY synopsis|url=http://www.filmstreams.org/filmstreams_calendar.aspx?ID=579|work=Film Streams}} and the Sheldon Museum of Art.{{cite web|title=Opening Reception for Sheldon Connections 2|url=http://www.sheldonartmuseum.org/events_programs/index.html?topic=detail&evnt_id=235|work=Sheldon Museum of Art}}{{cite web|title=Sheldon Connections expands exhibit to include more artists|date=Aug 5, 2007|last=Templeton|first=Adam|url=http://www.dailynebraskan.com/a-e/sheldon-connections-expands-exhibit-to-include-more-artists-1.283133#.TorPiOv7Bbq/|work=The Daily Nebraskan}} His work has been shown in many venues, including the Holter Museum of Art, Bellevue Arts Museum, St. George Art Museum, and the Nevada Museum of Art and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts{{cite web |url=http://www.bemiscenter.org/art/upcoming.html/event/2010/11/19/extraordinary-rendition-underground |date=2010-11-19 |title=Extraordinary Rendition: Underground |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304092907/http://www.bemiscenter.org/art/upcoming.html/event/2010/11/19/extraordinary-rendition-underground |archivedate=2016-03-04|access-date=2022-03-06 }}{{cite web|title=Act of Torture|date=December 1, 2010|last=Krainak|first=Michael|url=http://www.thereader.com/comments/act_of_torture/|work=The Reader}} for a complex installation called "Rendition" which was originally shown in Reno, NV, and in which visitors had their reactions to his paintings of prisoners being tortured "digitally downloaded into a database for future examination and analysis".{{cite web|title=Extra ordinary - Tim Guthrie|date=August 27, 2009|last=Sorg|first=Chad|access-date=October 4, 2011|url=http://www.newsreview.com/reno/extra-ordinary/content?oid=1158345|work=Reno News and Review}}
Books
Guthrie's work was included in the book Ingres, regards croisés by Jean-Pierre Cuzin and Dimitri Salmon.{{cite book |isbn=978-2-84459-129-6 |title=Ingres: Regards croisés |last1=Cuzin |first1=Jean Pierre |last2=Salmon |first2=Dimitri |year=2006|publisher=Mengès |url=https://www.leslibraires.fr/livre/648253-ingres-regards-croises-jean-pierre-cuzin-dimitri-salmon-menges }} Guthrie's photography was used in Ink, Davis Schneiderman's third book in his DEAD/BOOKS trilogy.{{cite book |isbn=978-1938841033 |title=Ink |last1=Schneiderman |first1=Davis |date=18 December 2015 |publisher=Jaded Ibis Press }}
Awards
Guthrie was Best Visual Artist, Best New Media Artist and was awarded Best Group Show (Museum of Alternative History) in 2014.http://oea-awards.com/news-home/2014/2/16/20132014-omaha-entertainment-arts-award-winners.html He was also Best New Media Artist[http://oea-awards.com/2007/ OEA Awards] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110823141930/http://oea-awards.com/2007/ |date=2011-08-23 }} in 2007 and was awarded Best Group Show (Nuclear Dichotomies) {{Cite web|url=http://www.nonpareilonline.com/archive/oea-awards-great-performances-highlight-of-omaha-entertainment-arts-awards/article_ca9bdd40-2d70-58e0-81ec-8024c83fb00b.html|title=OEA Awards: Great performances highlight of Omaha Entertainment & Arts Awards|date=10 January 2008 }} the same year. He has also been awarded Individual Artist Fellowships (Nebraska Arts Council) in 2011,[http://www.nebraskaartscouncil.org/news_publications/news/enews.html/article/2011/04/08/nac-announces-2011-iaf-awards-in-filmmaking-and-performing-arts Individual Artist Fellowship 2011] 2008,[http://www.nebraskaartscouncil.org/artists/artistdirectory/ntproster/visualartsntp/tsguthntp.html Individual Artist Fellowship 2008] 2007[http://www.bemiscenter.org/get_involved/past_events.html/event/2007/12/07/state-of-the-art-2007-nebraska-arts-council-iaf-recipients- Individual Artist Fellowship 2007] and 2006 (Distinguished Artist).{{cite web|title=Nebraska Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship 2006|url=http://www.nebraskaartscouncil.org/artists/artistdirectory/ntproster/visualartsntp/tsguthntp.html|work=Nebraska Touring Program}}
Guthrie is a professor at Creighton University.[http://jmac.creighton.edu/?page_id=216/ Creighton University]
Artwork
Guthrie has used his work to make commentaries about social justice{{cite web |title=Art as Social Justice {{!}} Omaha Magazine|url=http://www.omahamagazine.com/2015/06/26/303383/art-as-social-justice|access-date=2021-08-08|website=www.omahamagazine.com|language=en}}{{cite web |date=2010-07-01|title=The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #18: Paula Whyman in Conversation with Tim Guthrie|url=https://therumpus.net/2010/07/the-rumpus-mini-interview-project-19-paula-whyman-in-conversation-with-tim-guthrie/|access-date=2021-08-08|website=The Rumpus.net|language=en}} such as his The Museum of Alternative History project, which addresses cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias and a 2007 show about the USA's nuclear testing program called Nuclear Dichotomies.{{cite web |url=http://www.thereader.com/comments/guthries_believe_it_or_not/ |title=Guthrie's 'Believe It or Not' |url-status=dead |last=Krainak|first=Michael J. |date=2013-05-25 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305230707/http://thereader.com/comments/guthries_believe_it_or_not |archivedate=2016-03-05|access-date=2022-03-06 }} He has presented his work as an activist at presentation around the world, such as Digital Disobediences where he was featured as part of Abertay University's Platform series.{{cite web|url=https://www.abertay.ac.uk/visit/weave-by-abertay/digital-disobediences-artist-tim-guthrie/ |title=Digital Disobediences: Artist Tim Guthrie |website=abertay.ac.uk |date=2017-09-21|access-date=2022-03-06}} His Big Art Giveaway gave away nearly 500 pieces of artwork during the year of 2012 to "the 99%" including a show of much of the work at the Modern Arts Midtown Gallery in Omaha, NE.{{Cite web|url=http://www.modernartsmidtown.com/events/tim-guthrie-big-art-giveaway|title = Tim Guthrie, Big Art Giveaway |last=Hansen |first=Sarah Baker |date=2012-07-13|access-date=2022-03-06|website=modernartsmidtown.com|location=Omaha, Nebraska}} In 2010, Guthrie collaborated with Doug Hayko to create an exhibition about the United States' extraordinary rendition program at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts.
Installations
Guthrie's work has included site specific installations, such as the Elements installation "Burn"{{cite web|title=Elements Art Exhibit|date=November 9, 2007|last=Adams|first=Steve|url=http://steveadamsomaha.org/2007_Highlights/Fontenell_Elements/gallery.htm}}{{cite web|title=Changes Happening in the Forest|date=Aug 18, 2007|last=Hutton|first=JD|url=http://elementsinsider.blogspot.com/2007/08/changes-happening-in-forest.html/|work=Elements Insider}} at Fontenelle Forest in Bellevue, NE, and "Flow" in Elkhorn, NE{{cite web|title="Flow" by Tim Guthrie|date=Aug 24, 2010|last=MCC|url=http://www.spiritofomaha.com/Metro-Magazine/Community/Calendar/index.php/name/Flow-by-Tim-Guthrie/event/10699/}} and outdoor video projections such as the one for "Science Fair"{{cite web|title=Blind 'Em With Science|date=Feb 5, 2011|last=Baker Hansen|first=Sarah|url=http://blog.sabdesi.net/2011/02/blind-’em-with-science/|work=SabDesi.net}} in Omaha, NE.
Guthrie has also done public art pieces, including murals and banners on silos.http://www.publicartomaha.org/artists/bio/189
Education
- Creighton University (Bachelor of Fine Arts Painting/Drawing)
- University of Idaho (Master of Fine Arts Sculpture)
Residencies
- Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain, New York
- Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, Ireland
- New Pacific Studio, New Zealand
- Hall Farm Center for the Arts and Education, Townshend, VT
- Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, VA
- Ørslev Kloster, Højslev, Denmark
- Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
;Collections:
- [http://www.boiseartmuseum.org/ Boise Art Museum], Boise, Idaho
- [http://www.the-square.org/ Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art], Great Falls, Montana
- Plemmons Collection of Contemporary Art, Boone, North Carolina
- Leigh Lane Edwards Collection of Contemporary Art, Appalachian State University
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.timguthrie.com/}}
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