Anonymous Fragments
Timothy Hull
February 14 - June 29, 2025
Anonymous Fragments presents a new series of paintings and drawings by Timothy Hull inspired by the Carlos Museum’s collection of ancient Greek vase fragments. Weaving together histories of collecting, antiquities trafficking, and desire for Greek vases with images of same-sex lovers and Dionysian revelry excerpted from the vase fragments themselves, Hull constructs a queer art history that disrupts conventional, heteronormative narratives of Western art to explore the complex interplay between queer and homosexual imagery in ancient Greece and its implicit impact on modern understandings of sexuality and gender. Embracing an artistic dialogue across time and engaging the museum as a space that documents and preserves the traces of human experience, Anonymous Fragments affirms a past, present, and future for those whose existence has frequently been challenged or denied.
About the Artist
Timothy Hull (born 1979, New York, NY) received an MFA at Parsons School of Design, New York, and a BA at New York University, New York. Recent solo exhibitions include: Plato’s Closet at ASHES/ASHES, New York, Locus, Logos Legominism at Kristen Lorello, New York, Painting in the Imperfect Tense, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York (2016) and Pastiche Cicero, Fitzroy Gallery, New York (2014). His work has been included in group exhibitions at Mitchell-Innes and Nash, The Hole, FRAC Lorraine, Tate Modern, the Morris Museum of Art, and the Nomas Foundation. Hull's work has been featured and reviewed in the New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, Flash Art, Interview Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and the art journal Hyperallergic.
Press Release
An exhibition press release will be available soon. For high-resolution images of featured artworks, please contact Emily Knight at emily.knight@emory.edu.
Headline image: Timothy Hull, Untitled Anonymous Fragments 1–4, 2024. Oil on canvas. Images courtesy of the artist.
