About the Artist

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LANDSCAPES

My passion for the landscapes is as follows; These airy landscapes are the moments between breaths, the sound after a water drop rejoins a puddle, the instant after a leaf breaks free and begins its journey. I approach the landscapes with the intent to allow the viewer to exhale and to reminisce about a moment in their life that brings them tranquility. My intent is to learn to enjoy things for what they are without over analyzing. There is much Beauty in the simplicities of life."These paintings are what they are, moments in time that are recalled as fleeting memories!

Tim Postell, 2007

ABSTRACTS

The paintings are a symphony of lines, marks, splashes and drips of color inside the four edges of a canvas. The work represents the moment of the internal self. Each stroke of paint is comprised of all the elements making up the environment I am in at that moment in time. It's the atmosphere around me, the music playing, the light, the temperature, the wind and even the sound of my breath and heart beat in my ears as I work. Each session is different in many ways. One night I may dance with the canvas and the next the canvas and I may collide like two freight trains head on. It is always different for me. Each painting is a non-objective representation of existing in the moment and coexisting with chaos.

"Inside of chaos, we find ourselves".
Tim Postell

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I grew up in a rural area of Gastonia, North Carolina, where most of my memories are of days spent playing sports and helping to raise a few head of cattle. In December 1985, I began my adult life at the age of 18 in the United States Air Force. In June, 1987, I married my wife who is my inspiration in life. After leaving the military in November 1989, I worked construction until August 1990, when I began working for Duke Power, the same utility my father retired from. Four months later on the 18th of December, 1990, I was recalled to active duty for the Persian Gulf Conflict. When I returned home from the war, my life had changed. It took me three more years of soul searching to realize that I was only truly happy when I was doing something related to art. I spent the next two years going to night school at the local community colleges. I went four and five nights a week, year round, while at the same time working full time for Duke Power. In August, 1996, at the age of 28, I left my job and transferred to East Carolina University to pursue my dream of becoming an artist.
After obtaining my undergraduate degree in May 1999, I spent the following two years in graduate school at the Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. While at the Institute I grew as an artist under the guidance of people like internationally known artists Grace Hartigan, the founder and director of the Hoffberger School of Painting, Raoul Middleman the artist in residence and many more visiting artists. During those two years at the Institute I also had the unique opportunity to learn from the brilliance of my peers in the program, which made it an extraordinary artistic and intellectual experience. in
I now live in Raleigh, North Carolina and spend a great portion of my time plein air painting (open air) or painting in my studio (Studio # 202) at Artspace in downtown Raleigh where art is flourishing through a symbiotic relationship that can be found between the diverse population of remarkable artists found there and in this community.

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Professional Experience

2002 - Present   Professional Artist, Artspace, Studio 218, Raleigh, NC
2006 - Present   Teaching, Drawing I & II, Durham Technical college, Durham, NC
2005 -2006        Teaching, Painting in Acrylic, Sertoma Art Center, Raleigh, NC
2004 - 2004       Jeweler, Kerry Catherine Jewelry, Raleigh, NC
2003 - 2004       Sales Associate, Home Depot, Raleigh, NC
2003 –2003       Life Drawing Moderator, Artspace, Raleigh, NC
2003 - 2003       Sales Associate, Jerry’s Artarama, Raleigh, NC
2002 - 2003      Jeweler, Treasure Isle, Cary, NC
2001 - 2002      Goldsmith, Ben Dyer Designer Goldsmith, Hillsborough, NC
1999 - 2001      Teaching Assistant, Maryland Institute College of Art,Baltimore,   MD:

 Painting Figure and Ground, (Karl Connolly)
 Drawing I, (Rex Stevens - Chair of General Fine Arts Dept.)
 Drawing II, (Rex Stevens)
 Drawing II AP, (Michael Weiss)
 Drawing and Painting the Figure, (Karl Connolly)
 Phenomena of Color, (Michelle La Perriere)
 Elements of Visual Thinking, (Anne Stoddard)

1999 - 2001      Exhibition Installation Assist., Exhibitions Now Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD
1990 - 1996      Technical Writer, PASCE System Computer Technician and Nuclear
                           Station Electrical Systems Modification Technician, Duke Power
                           Charlotte, NC
1990 - 1991     Veteran of Desert Strike and Desert Storm, Staff Sergeant, Flight Line
                          Mechanic, United States Air Force Reserves, Seymour Johnson AFB,
                          Goldsboro, NC (Honorable Discharge May 4, 1994)
1985 - 1989     Aircraft Mechanic, United States Air force:

 F-117 Stealth Fighter Program, Nellis Test Range,
Tonopagh, NV
 F-16 Fighter, F-4 Fighter and CH-53 Helicopter, Shaw
AFB, Sumter, SC

Education

1999 - 2001      Master of Fine Arts in Studio Painting, Hoffberger School of Painting,
                           Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, MD
1996 - 1999      Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Painting, East Carolina University,
                           Greenville, NC, Magna Cum Laude

Professional Affiliations

 Artspace. Board of Directors, Raleigh, NC
 President of Artspace Artist Association, Raleigh, NC
 North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
 Durham Art Council (DAC) Durham, NC
 Durham Art Guild (DAG) Durham, NC
 Artspace Artists Association (AAA) Raleigh, NC
 Visual Art Exchange (VAE) Raleigh, NC
 Contemporary Art Museum (Cam) Raleigh, NC

Solo Exhibitions

2007 "Portraits of the Landscape" North Carolina Museum of Life and Science,

Durham, NC

2006 "Internal Rhythms" Artspace, Raleigh, NC

2005             "Forms of Abstractions" Vintage 21, Raleigh, NC
2004             "Literal Perceptions" Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC
2004             "Conversations" Capital City Club, Raleigh, NC
2003             "Blurred Interpretations" North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers
                       (2nd floor), Raleigh, NC

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008 "Gone to Carolina" The All Things Gallery, 269 Bleeker St.,

New York, NY

2007 "Trading Spaces: An Art Center Exchange" Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory,

Alexandria, VA

2006 "Group Show" Raleigh Durham International Airport, Raleigh, NC

2005             "Group Show" Glance Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2005             "52 Annual Goldsboro Art Exhibition" Juried, Goldsboro, NC
2005             "Your Perceptions" 3 person show at April & George Art Bar and Wine
                      Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2005             2nd Bienniel: "True Tails on Cats and Dogs". Nicoles Studio and Art Gallery,
                      Raleigh, NC
2005             "History in the Making" Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC
2004             "Business Expo / Art Expo 2004" Chamber of Commerce, Garner, NC
2004             "What is Sex?" Juried Exhibition, Bickett Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2004             "Lovers Lane" Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC
2004             "CAM Open Exhibition" Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, NC
2003 – 04    "Artspace Artist Associations Holiday Exhibition" Juried, Artspace,
                           Raleigh, NC
2003            "Three Emerging Artist" Duke University School of Law, Durham, NC
                     Presented by Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh,- NC
2003            "Artspace Artist Associations Annual Exhibition for New Members"
                     Juried, Artspace, Raleigh, NC
2003            "CAM Open Exhibition" Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, NC
2003            "Annual Holiday Exhibition" Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC
2003            "Town and Country" Juried, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC
2003            "Light" Juried, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC
2002            "Two Hundred Under 500" Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2002            "Fine Arts League of Cary Annual Juried Exhibition” Juried, Cary, NC
2001            "The Graduate” www.Sothebys.com and Artlink@sothebys.com, NY, NY 2001            "An Excavation” MFA Thesis Show, Fox3 Thesis Gallery, Maryland Institute
                     College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2001            "Touchstone Friends 2001" Invitational Show, Touchstone Gallery,
                           Washington, DC

Alternative Exhibition Venues

2009 "Model Home Exhibit" Archwood Building Company, Raleigh, NC

2006 "What Do You See" Royal Bean, Raleigh, NC

2005 "Landscapes of Eastern North Carolina" Wake Medical Hospital, Sponsored

                       by United Arts or Raleigh and Wake County
2005            "Spree" Junior League sponsored, Raleigh, NC
2005            "Southern Ideal Home Show Art", Artspace Artist Association, Raleigh, NC
2005             Capital Fitness Club, Raleigh, NC

2005 Port City Java, Raleigh, NC

2004 - 05    "Everything is Abstract" Red Hat, Raleigh, NC
2003             "Convergence of Divergence" Jerry’s Artarama, Raleigh, NC
2003             "Abstractions of Time" The Brass Grille, Raleigh, NC
2003             "A Mono-scopic View" (1998 to 2002), Sprout Café, Apex, NC
2002             "A Spiritual Observation" (2000 to 2002), Sprout Café, Cary, NC
1998             "Nine 30 Show" Invitational Show, Old Town Gallery, Ayden, NC

Awards

2007 Art on the Move recipient, sponsored by the City of Raleigh Arts

Commission (CORAC) in partnership with Capital Area Transit (CAT).

Artwork from 12 artists has been selected to be emblazoned on the sides of

CAT buses traveling throughout Raleigh.

2003 Honorable Mention, "Light" Juried, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC
2002 2nd Place, Fine Arts League of Cary Annual Juried, Cary, NC

Private Collections

Patricia and John Healy, Art Collectors, NC
Honorable Judge Jennifer Knox, Art Collector, NC
Barbara Weeks, Art Collector, NC
Kathleen Thompson, Art Collector, NC
April Howard, Art Collector, TX
Marion Youngblood, Art Collector, NC
Bruce & Audrey Downing, Art Collector, NC
Jack and Nancy Boyne, Art Collector, NC
Francis McRay, Art Collector, NC
Phillip Kornely, Art Collector, NC
Patricia De Los Rios, Art Collector, NC
Nancy Johnson, Art Collector, NC
Tasha Key, Art Collector, NC
Dave Weber, Business Owner, OH
Carolyn Tidwell, Restaurant Owner, NC
Crystal Tidwell, Art Collector, NC
Dr. Gabriel Cipau, Catalytica Pharmaceuticals, Corporate Art Collection, NC
Teresa Morris, President of Art Enthusiast, Art Collector, NC

Selected Commissions

Kim Johnson, Art Enthusiast, Raleigh, NC
Bruce & Audrey Downing, Art Enthusiast, Raleigh, NC
Phillip Kornely, Art Enthusiast, Raleigh, NC
John Hayes, Art Enthusiast, Raleigh, NC
Rev. Jeff Robinson, Oak City Baptist Church, Oak City, NC