Tim Flowers is an artist and educator based in Decatur, Georgia. He is the Associate Director at the Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design at Georgia State University.
He received his MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1985 and his BFA from the University of Oklahoma in 1983. Prior to his appointment at GSU he taught at Louisiana State University and at the Rhode Island School of Design. In the summers of 1999, 2000 and 2002 he taught a study abroad course, Art in the Outback, through RISD and the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
His recent drawings and oil paintings are based on observation of the interiors or ‘wrong’ sides of foil masks. He is also inclined to use sketches taken from shadows in cemeteries, French clouds, and other observed landscape events. Choosing visually complex subjects, Flowers discovers power in the incomprehensible.
Recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition “Anonymous Portraits of People You Know” at the WSAD Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia in 2019; and the two-person show “Fanatic” at Upfor Gallery, Portland, Oregon in 2014. Other recent group shows include “Parallel” at Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia in 2020; “Contrast: China-USA Painting Exchange Exhibition” at Lu Gallery, Baoding City, China in 2019; “The High Rise Show” at ShowerHaus Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia in 2019; and “August Geometry” at Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, 2015.