Timothy Woodman: In Search of Lost Time

Opening June 26 and on view through July 27, The Drawing Room is pleased to present "Timothy Woodman: In Search of Lost Time", an installation of 260 small paintings inspired by the artist’s close readings of Marcel Proust. Captivated by particular images Proust recalls from his childhood, Woodman isolates each memory as an object - a little church, a windjammer, a crown of thorns – meticulously rendering them as black silhouettes floating on the unique atmospheric color he creates for the painted panel background. The myriad of blended hues he crafts eludes description and provides a deep emotional space for each iconic form to occupy.

Preserving the buoyancy of memory, Woodman the reader transforms words on the page into miniature paintings in vivid color. Selecting dozens of prose lines from each novel in the six volume Modern Library edition, Woodman presents a trail of dazzling concrete images inspired by the serpentine prose from In Search of Lost Time, an icon of Modernist literature.

See below for full press release and selected works.