Tim White-Sobieski

Who is Tim White-Sobieski?

Tim White-Sobieski is a video and installation artist based in New York and Berlin.

Tim White-Sobieski began showing in New York in the early 1990s his “Blue Paintings”. These paintings were visually and aesthetically connected with the artist’s later photo- and video- works like “Presence” and “Runner”, “Venice Vacation” and “Queen Mary”. Emphasis on the role of the unconscious in his paintings had affinities with visual Abstractionism and literary Existentialism.

In 1995, White-Sobieski started working on his “Moving Paintings” and “Moving Drawings” projects as a series of experiments in image animation which were based partially on lingo scripting language that was used in Macromedia applications. At that period, the artist studied music composition and became especially interested in musical architecture of silence of John Cage. In response to the Cage's objective to look through sounds and not at them, White-Sobieski created his infinite animations of paintings and drawings as a parallel life of an artwork, “image in process”. White-Sobieski wrote the scripts for programming infinite ways of controlling behavior of shapes, colors and image parameters in a video frame; some of the work was finalized and exhibited in multiple venues, some never ended and has been frequently dated as ongoing.