Timothy Rollin Pickerill
br 1967, Nebraska, USA
The Omen Project is a magic charm to awaken the dead, shadows, wandering asleep, forgetful and lost. Deep Black a.k.a. No'One counted among them, being one who has 'fallen off the earth,' is sought by and seeks the beloved.
I find that we are schizophrenic as a species. We see ourselves as being separate and thus find ourselves and isolated lost, and warring with those who are essentially part of our being. We have run away, 'gone to the dark side', perhaps even 'born dead' not yet living. Deep Black a.k.a. No'One counted among them, being one who has 'fallen off the earth,' seeks the beloved, to remember, to return. By any means possible (writing, video, performance) I try in my own way to find my way home. To leave the deserts for the land of the living.
Mr Pickerill is a multimedia artist with roots in poetry and photography since a teenager. Influenced by Antonin Artaud, Viennese Actionism, and 70's SoCal video and performance since 1997 he has been developing the Omen Project a series of performances, video and installations centered on his writing. Inspired by the themes in the Iliad and the Odyssey- the primacy of personal love over societal conflict and control. Most notably Hehas staged 12 productions and taken part in many Video festivals internationally. Most recently he has had photography published in Ninja magazine and video shown on the Art Channel, both out of Paris, France. Mr Pickerill lives and works in Brooklyn NY.
Burning from the inside, sun and moon collide; open the flesh.
Education
California State University San Francisco (Video Anthropology/Media Arts)
Video Festivals and Screenings
2009 ABSTRACTA 2009 International Abstract Cinema Exhibition, Rome, Italy
2009 Video Library 'a la carte,' Festival Images Contre Nature, Marseille, France
2009 Exquisite Corpse Project, Head QuartersMelbourne, Australia
2009 Exquisite Corpse Project, AS220 Gallery, Providence, RI
2009 Exquisite Corpse Project, Núcleo de Produção Digital Orlando Vieira, Aracaju, Brazil
2009 Hypogeum, the Tank, NY, NY
2009 Maximum Bonkers, Envoy Gallery, Manhattan, NY
2009 Flash, The Prospect Range, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Art Channel, www.artchannel.info, Paris, France
2009 Exquisite Corpse Project, Formverk, Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden
2009 Exquisite Corpse Project, Formverk, Eskilstuna, near Stockholm, Sweden
2009 Exquisite Corpse Project, The Lupa Art, Melbourne, Australia2008 Optica 2008, international festival of video arts, Gijon,Spain2008 Optica 2008, international festival of video arts, Madrid, Spain2008 Optica 2008, international festival of video arts, Paris, France2008 Digital Fringe, international festival of digital arts, Melborne, Australia2007 Story Tellers, group show of international video art, Primo Piano Livingallery, Lecce, Italy2007 The Man Show, Gitana Rosa Gallery, Broolyn, NY2006 Pierogi Gallery, Flat file for video, Brooklyn, NY2006 Optica 2006, international festival of video arts, Gijon, Spain2006 Passion, Liverpool Bienneal Independents, The Projection Gallery, Liverpool, England2006 The 2nd annual Pixel Pops!, at C2C gallery, Prague, Czech Republic2006 METU Video Festival, Ankara, Turkey2003 Brave Destiny, International Surrealist Film Festival, WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY
Performance2007 Jared Withman Show, Brooklyn, NY2005 Plush, Brooklyn, NY2005 Noise! seen and unseen, Ontological Theater, NY, NY2004 Falling Off The Earth, Cave, Brooklyn, NY2002 Dada Fest, SOMARTS, San Francisco, CA2002 Necropolis, Theater of Yugen, San Francisco, CA2001 Necropolis, Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco, CA2001 Dada Fest 2001, SOMARTS, San Francisco, CA2001 Nowhere, Theater of Yugen / Noh Space, San Francisco, CA2000 NORCAL Noise Fest, with Gary Singh, Bo Jangles, Sacramento, CA2000 Dada Fest 2000, SOMARTS, San Francisco, CA1999 Body of Light, The Lab, San Francisco, CA1999 the Messenger Service, Theater Artaud, San Francisco, CA1999 High Voltage Capacitor, Yuerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA1999 High Voltage Capacitor, Theater Artaud, San Francisco, CA1997 Ape Theater Presents Play Time, CCA Wattis ICA, San Francisco, CA1994 Ape Theater @ Desert Site Works, Burning Man, Black Rock Desert, NV1994 7 Days, Desert Site Works, Burning Man, Black Rock Desert, NV1994 Ape Theater Presents, the Tree of Life, San Francisco, CA1994 Burning Man Presents, SOMARTS Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Solo Exhibitions2004 BRIC Studios, Brooklyn, NY2003 DUMBO General Store, Brooklyn, NY1998 Body of Light, Uff Galleria, Budapest, Hungary
Group Exhibitions2009 Pierogi Gallery, Flat file, Brooklyn, NY2009 the Anarchist Art Show, Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair, San Francisco, California
2004 Night of 10,000 Drawings, benefit auction (sold,) Artists Space, Manhattan, NY2004 Falling Off The Earth, Cave, Brooklyn, NY2002 Dada Fest 2002, SOMARTS, San Francisco, CA1998 Internal Drawing, National Exhibition of Miniature Drawings, Budapest Autumn Festival, juried, Nador Galeria, Budapest, Hungary1998 Anti Pessimism, Show N Tell, Nador Galleria, Budapest, Hungary1997 Art of Place, SFSU School of Creative Arts, Tiburon, CA1996 SF Street Theater Festival, Interactive Sculpture Garden, San Francisco, CA1995 Burning Man, Black Rock Desert, NV1995 Show N Tell, Show N Tell Gallery, San Francisco, CA1995 Mission Sole, juried exhibition, Collision Gallery, San Francisco, CA1994 SFSU Sculpture Dept., Clay Studio, San Francisco, CA1993 Object, juror: Armando Rascon, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Awards2004 Foundation For Contemporary Performance Arts, finishing grant
Bibliography2009 Ninja, January, issue #10, Paris, France1999 UFF Gallery 1997 -1999, Pub. Ujlak Foundation, Budapest, 1999, ISBN: 963 03 9111 21998 Internal Drawing, Pub. Belvarosi Muviszetek Tarsasaga, ISBN: 963 03 5970
nightshade hazards of the moon
synchronicity performance noise
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