We are pleased to announce Double Vision: Stereoscopic Textiles, Tim Harding’s debut exhibition at Groveland Gallery, opening Saturday, July 19.  Originally a painter, Harding has been a textile artist since the 1970s. Harding is the recipient of grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board, Arts Midwest, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Harding’s work is part of several museum collections, including the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Kwangju-Korea, and San Francisco Museum of Fine Art, among others. Harding’s work is also found in numerous corporate collections, including but not limited to: Securian Financial, Nokia, Cargill, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Hazelton Foundation, Microsoft, Mayo Clinic, HCMC, Health Partners, Sea World, and Catholic Charities USA.

 

Harding’s work focuses on large-scale textile wall pieces that allow for luminance to pass through the material, informing the abstracted compositions. The new works are inspired by color phenomena captured in nighttime photography. Harding’s three-dimensional pieces provoke close looking, changing at each different angle, with exciting color relationships directing the eye to every edge of the artwork. Harding writes:

 

“As a career textile artist trained as a painter, I’ve always been fascinated by the ambiguous line between abstraction and representation. Informed by textile history and intrinsic properties of the medium such as the pliable plane and woven grid, as well as elements of structure, surface, pattern, color, and texture, I find myself approaching this elusive “line” abstractly.

 

    “More recently my approach has been from a photographer’s perspective.  Starting with a highly representational image, a photograph, I’m manipulating and deconstructing that image towards abstraction.  

 

     “My work has always had an aspect of layered transparency.  This new work, although diverted from my previous technique of reverse appliqué quilting, continues with that concept. 

 

     “The pieces from this series grew out of dramatic low light sources I used in my nighttime photography. The highlights and deep shadows can break an image into components of pattern and texture while creating illusions of depth and motion.”

 

The artist will be present at the opening reception on Saturday, July 19 from 2-5 pm. The exhibition runs concurrently with La Nuit Américaine by Greg Graham. Tim Harding will give an artist talk at Groveland Gallery on Saturday, August 9, starting at 3 pm. Both shows continue through August 30, 2025.