without moving (after guy chase)

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This is project involves an on-going participatory component in which the dark gray field of the painting surrounding the figure of Temma is slowly being covered by a meticulously painted field of black dots. These dots are being applied by Tim Lowly and a variety of other participants. This quasi performance / action component of the work only takes place during the course of the work’s exhibition when Tim is present.

The parameters for the dot painting are quite simple:
1) paint dots that are achievable by a single touch of the brush (eg no large dots)
2) paint dots starting in conjunction with an area of dots that have been painted previously
3) paint dots so they are close to each other but not touching
4) count the dots (a record is kept on the sides of the panel)
This last two directives are of significance central to the work in that the action of the dot painter is thus quite focused and intentional. This character lends a keen sense of the individual’s presence to the project in the resulting surface marks. The pattern of each person’s dot painting is “improvised”, but in a very responsive way.

This set documents this project, including the various collaborators who have participated in the on-going dot painting portion of the project.

Locations where the work has been shown and dot painting taken place:

– North Park University, Chicago
– Indiana Wesleyan University, Indiana
– Fill in the Blank Gallery, Chicago
– North Park Art Walk, Chicago
– “Resonant Visions” at McCormick Place
– Swedish Covenant Hospital, Chicago
– Cathedral Square as part of ArtPrize, Grand Rapids, MIchigan
– College of the Ozarks, Point Lookout, Missouri
– CIVA conference at Wheaton College, Illinois
– Labletter exhibition, Chicago
– Visual Arts Center of the Washington Pavilion in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
– Northeastern Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago
– Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana
– Saint Mary’s University, Winona, Minnesota

More explanation here:
www.flickr.com/photos/timlowly/5266159285

(in order of participation – some people have worked on this at more than one time)

Rachael McHan
Kira Yeversky
Maria Gullo
Nikolas Burkhart
Allison May
Elsa Muñoz
Emma Larson

Genevieve Hircock
Charissa Pederson
Erica Nelson
Kate Vigliano
Adrian Vigliano
Katie Hogan
Dayton Castleman
Kathleen Judge
Katie Schofield
Hilary Marshall

Nancy Schofield
Robin Spencer
David Orth
Silvia Cuevas
David A. Parker
Kayla Strauss
Michael Ruback
Paul Goodenough
Omar Van Opstal
Annie Wilkinson
Natalie Bergman
Karen Bergman
John Bakker
Katie Burzynski
Corinne D Peterson
Tim Erickson
Elizabeth Ahlem
Bill Egan
Paula Egan
Laura Wennstrom
Hannah Joy Root
Kari Lindholm-Johnson
Nicolette Durand
Stephen Signa-Aviles
Maggie Hubbard
Corrie Andrews
Joanna Bayliss
Bill Wood
Ben Scott-Brandt
Armin Mersmann
Lindsey Robinson
Alex Beecroft
Deb Rockman
Adam Graff

Christine Graff
Peggy French
Rhiannon W
Ruth Hendrick
Jake Hendrick
Viridiana Yvette Rodriguez Ramirez
Rachel VandenBrink
Leah VandenBrink
Susan Langeland
Robert Penning
Bonnie Penning
Kathryn L
James Relich
Ellie Phillilps
Casey Lee
Chrissy Maziarz
Jim Lucas
Abigail Fish
Kelsea Inson
Damaris Reed
Jonathan Horst
Amy Glunt
Jennifer Freeman
Richard Cummings
Mark Sprinkle
Ned Bustard
Gregory Deddo
Amanda Le Blanc
G.E. Colpitts
Caleb Kortokrax
Bruce Herman
Sean Palmer
Pete Diesen
Gary Wolfe
Saundra Diehl
Mako Fujimura
Janice Skivington
Emily Fussner
Kevin Hamilton
David West
Jason McPhillips
Jane Kotchen, MD, MPH
Dušan L.
Natalija L.
Marija L.
Brett Eberhardtl

(as of 4.5.14 approximately 253,000 dots have been painted)