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Timothy Kranz

Serious Play: Timothy Kranz

October 9 - November 7, 2020


The paintings and drawings of Timothy Kranz feature portraits of Star Wars figurines and other beloved characters. Kranz uses familiar playthings to work through feelings of isolation and unrest.


Artist Statement

The works created for this exhibition have similarities and Roots tied to my previous toy-based works. However, due to various factors such as covid-19 and the subsequent changes in our daily lives and society these works have a little different message behind them. While it may not be obvious to the viewer, as these works evolved I saw them as my way of expressing thoughts and emotions that were related to what was going on around us. Unfinished elements in each work, as well as previous layers and parts of the subjects still being visible in the finished product were a way of showing that while  conditions have improved in some ways we are still dealing with issues and problems from several months ago. The figures in my works are often lonely and isolated, fallen, and portrayed in ways that express things that myself and most other people in our Global Society have recently gone through and are continuing to go through. The darkness and looming shadows represent the various, obvious, yet ominous elements of what has been going on as well as a lack of optimism that things will improve rapidly. It’s going to take a long time for the darkness to go away, if it ever fully does. As a result these works intentionally channel a bit of Caravaggio's work, chiaroscuro, tennebrism,  baroque, and Renaissance works. The dramatic sense of lighting and contrast in combination with the portrayal of the subjects potentially leads the viewers to see the portrayal of old toys as a serious contemporary message. In many cases these toys and the people that own them have been around a long time, and yet when they were created no one could have foreseen such a bleak and unfortunate series of circumstances that would make up our current and recent daily lives. The toys further represent how innocent we were as a society to not be prepared and consider something like this happening sooner. The last element of these pieces is most obvious in the colors used in the paintings. While there is a lot of darkness in the works there’s also a lot of warm, bright splashes of color that are meant to represent optimism towards the future and towards Society eventually fully adapting and overcoming our current situations.

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Buckham Gallery is funded by the following organizations:
Generous support is provided by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. 

Our activities are sponsored in part by an award from the MICHIGAN ARTS AND CULTURE COUNCIL  and the NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS. 
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This program is sponsored by the Greater Flint Arts Council Share Art Genesee Grant Program made possible by the Genesee County Arts Education and Cultural Millage funds. Your tax dollars are at work!
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  • Home
  • Exhibitions
    • January Solo Exhibitions >
      • Crawl Space | Guen Montgomery
      • Portraits of Home | Whitney Lea Sage
      • Interior Visions: Domestic Sphere | Stephanie Serpick
    • In Conversation
    • Exhibition Opportunities >
      • Small Works Exhibition
      • Teeth & Hair
      • PRESENTATION GUIDELINES
    • 2022-2023 Exhibition Schedule
    • Selected Past Exhibitions >
      • Early Winter Exhibitions >
        • Empty Road, Great Tornado - Emmett Merrill
        • Nice Things for Nice People - Kate Snow
        • Recent Work - Michael Melet
      • November Exhibition >
        • Buckham Artist Collaborators
        • On Screen: A Showcase
      • 101 Artists
      • Ojichaagwan Vessels- Guy Adamec
      • Caution: May Contain Nudity >
        • Donovan Entrekin
        • Friends
      • Summer Exhibitions >
        • Heidi Brueckner
        • Craig Hinshaw
        • Michael Weigman
      • Early Summer Exhibitions >
        • Barriers & Preservers | Margaret Davis
        • Endless Endeavors | Benjamin Muñoz
      • BIPOC is The Theme! >
        • BIPOC Artists for Feature Exhibition
        • Viewing Room
      • Late Winter Exhibitions >
        • Dialectics and the Decommodified: The Spectres of Capital- Morgan Craig
        • Textures of the Southwest- Robert Huebel
        • All the Pretty Little Horses- Chris Waters
      • Small Talk >
        • Viewing Room
      • December Exhibitions >
        • Horizons | Emily Legleitner
        • Indexing Schizophrenia | Diane Zeeuw
        • Seeking Solace | Rebecca Zeiss
      • Black & White
      • Entropy >
        • Viewing Room
      • Late Summer Exhibitions >
        • Hyper-Tension: Matthew Owen Wead
        • Nigrescence Comics: Kenish Magwood
      • Summer Exhibitions >
        • Beastly Luster: Kelly Boehmer
        • No Dark In Sight: Bill Davis
        • Penchant: Devan Horton
      • Early Summer Exhibitions >
        • Selvage: Jim Arendt
        • At Home: Candace Compton Pappas
      • Subtle Shifts
      • Disrupted Realism
      • Late Winter Exhibitions >
        • Chad Erpelding: Gains and Losses
        • Deepanjan Mukhopadhyay: Appropriated Figure-Grounds
        • Jordan Vinyard: Summary of A Few Volts
      • JANUARY 2021 >
        • Karen Milito
        • Nancy Pennell
        • Linda Lou Woodruff
      • December 2020: United By One >
        • United By One: Allen
        • United By One: LaBret Einstein
        • United By One: Haylett
        • United By One: Hershman
      • November 2020: BAC Exhibitions >
        • A Climate Of Change: Viewing Room
        • Shadows: 2020 Buckham Print Exchange
      • October 2020: Serious Play >
        • Serious Play: Andy Hill
        • Serious Play: Timothy Kranz
        • Serious Play: Sifus J Thompson
      • September 2020: Dear Memory, >
        • Aj Cooke: Fragmented Place
        • Michele Leclaire
        • Lauren Scavo-Fulk
      • August 2020: Ineffable Benedictions >
        • Matthew Osmon: Private Insurrection
        • 0591: People First
        • Rachel Singel: Metamorphosis
      • July 2020: Verisimilitude
      • Feb. 2020: Eros and Thanatos >
        • Eros & Thanatos: Award Winners
      • Jan. 2020
      • 2019 Exhibitions
    • Art Money
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      • 2022 Smallidge Lecture
      • Jan. 10, 2020: Artist Talks with Ardea Thurston-Shaine and Dominique Chastenet de Gary
      • Tommy Mintz, Nov. 2019
      • 2019 Smallidge Lecture
      • June 2019: Panel Discussion with John Dempsey, Guy Adamec, and Amy Gibas
      • May 4, 2019- Artist Talk with Stephen Halko and Nick Reszetar
      • April 13, 2019 ​Artist Talk and Deviant Life Drawing Session with Jeanine Leclaire
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