Opening January 29, 6-8pm

Gallery Bergelli is pleased to present an exhibition of new mixed media assemblages by Bay Area-based artist Tim Weldon. Titled Tim Weldon: The Higher Foolishness, the new work will be on view from January 29 - March 5, 2010.

Tim Weldon was born in New York City in 1961. The fifth in a family of nine children, he had a rich, colorful childhood. He was a "born performer" and appeared as a tap dancer in Broadway shows, including 42nd Street. In his teen years, Weldon's family moved to a small town in New Mexico, where his experimentation with the visual arts began. As an adult, he moved to San Francisco, California to work as a sound engineer in the music business. Weldon is self taught. His art documents his life - family, dance, music, food, and the palette and primitivism of New Mexico. His work is spontaneous, expressive, energetic, joyful, raw, innocent, emotional, and enchantingly creative. In the end, it is a celebration of life.

As a teenager, Weldon found refuge from the chaos of his large family in the garage, where he would paint. Then he painted on anything he found - old doors, signs, boards. In his travels he collects antique objects or architectural salvage - old cookie cutters, an old coffee grinder, an antique camera lens - that are later found in his art. He routinely uses text, which comes from the top of his mind, in a stream of consciousness - as a counterbalance to the primitive figures.

His work is sometimes referred to as art brut or outsider art. Weldon sees little use in labels, and instead refers to his work as this: "A word spawns an image, the image dances across the canvas to the beat of its own drummer and colors lead the way to a new discovery."

For the last couple of years Tim Weldon has been focusing on creating a new body of work he calls assemblages. Made with found objects these three dimensional wall pieces draw all of their colors from found raw material with occasional charcoal or oil stick drawings sometimes added.

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