Tim Folzenlogen (born May 2, 1952) is a contemporary realist

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based in

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. His work has been shown in more than 50 solo shows and he has sold more than 1000 paintingsManhattan Times, 2004
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details in New York City, and the way features of buildings are illuminated by slanting rays of light.

Biography

Folzenlogen was born and raised in

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. He graduated from the

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in 1974. He moved to

Washington Heights, Manhattan Washington Heights is a neighborhood in the uppermost part of the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is named for Fort Washington, a fortification constructed at the highest natural point on Manhattan by Continental Army troops to defen ...

in 1982. Folzenlogen dropped out of the gallery world in 2002 to focus on public art projects, his current emphasis. His works have become more popular with New York City's merchant class and

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banks.

Style and critical reception

Folzenlogen's work has been compared to

Edward Hopper Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was an American realist painter and printmaker. While he is widely known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. Hopper created subdued drama ...

and

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. Critics have called his approach cutting edge and jarring, though in many ways the content of his paintings is familiar and comfortable. His most common subject matter is the architecture of New York City or scenes of pedestrians. Though a contemporary realism painter, his use of light in these works gives them an

impressionistic Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage ...

quality. Dorn Townsend writes in the ''

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'', "The everyday aspects of the city have seldom been translated with such brio and glowing reverence" and "every color and every gesture stirs inside the viewer" In '' Artspeak'', Ed McCormack writes: "...few painters - aside from Wayne Thiebaud, the California artist generally acknowledged as the grand old man of Painterly Realism - have fully succeeded in this complex endeavor. A singular exception is the young Ohio born painter Tim Folzenlogen.... Like Hopper, Folzenlogen is a true painter of the American scene, with the ability to convey a sense of the urban experience in formal rather than anecdotal, terms, establishing emotional resonance through spatial tensions and strong tonal contrasts."

Philosophy

Folzenlogen's views and opinions are expressed in the roughly 200 essays on his web site. In the essay "Dry Paint," he expands a narrow discussion of painting to a broad analogy of human contact. The essay uses the details of an artist's experience to comment on life, an appeal to see something special within the ordinary, a quality with which he seeks to imbue his art. Taking the perspectives of others is an important theme for Folzenlogen. He writes, "Consider the 'other' ersonas deeply as you consider yourself, and you will always find that he or she is thinking and doing exactly what you would think or do, if you were him or her.""No fences" article, Art Academy of Cincinnati
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References

External links

Tim Folzenlogen's web site
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