Timothy App (born 1947) is a contemporary

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whose works are in numerous private and public collections including the

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Timothy App attended

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in Ohio, where he received a BFA degree in painting in 1970. He continued his study of painting at

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and in 1974 received an MFA. During his thirty-two years of teaching, he has taught at

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, the

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, and since 1990 at

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. With many one-person and group exhibitions, he has shown his abstract paintings regionally, nationally, and abroad. In 1988, his work was the focus of a 20-year survey exhibition. Most recently, his work from the last seven years was the subject of an exhibition with a catalog at Goya Contemporary in

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, where his paintings and prints are represented. His work is included in many private and public collections. He is a recipient of a NEA fellowship in painting, as well as an individual artist's grant from the Maryland State Arts Council. Twice he has received the Trustee's Award for Excellence in Teaching at MICA, and has been nominated for the Richard C. Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship. In addition to teaching and painting, he has written on the work of other artists, lectured on his own work, and curated exhibitions of abstract painting.

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Bibliography

* MICA Faculty Directory
''Timothy App''
(2009). * The Goya Contemporary

(2009).

External links

''An Interview with Artist Timothy App'' by Julie Karabenick,
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