Anonymous Fragments

Timothy Hull

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Four paintings by Timothy Hull from his Untitled Anonymous Fragment Series featuring colorful fragments on canvas

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. Piecing 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, Anonymous Fragments (re)constructs a queer art history, grounded in antiquity, that offers a world in which bodies, identities, and desires are fluid, expansive, and playful. At the same time, examining the controversies of the trade in ancient Greek vases, Hull reminds us that all museum objects – the licit and the illicit – are out of context, and in this sense offer endless opportunities to be re-viewed and re-interpreted, accruing meaning across time and with every act of looking.
 

Photo of Timothy Hull wearing a hat in front of one of his works
Photo by Daniel Greer

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.