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Scout
2006-2007
69 1/2 x 103 x 68 in. (176.53 x 261.62 x 172.72 cm)
Tim Hawkinson (San Francisco, California, 1960 - ) Primary
Initial Public Offering: New Works from SJMA’s Permanent Collection, March 1, 2014 - August 24, 2014, New Wing, First floor, Gibson Family Gallery and Plaza Gallery, San José Museum of Art.
Initial Public Offering: New Works from SJMA’s Permanent Collection (2014)
Tim Hawkinson's work is sometimes difficult to describe, much less categorize. He often uses readily available materials—found, everyday objects, and his own body—as medium, reference, and model. His process can be long and arduous, labor intensive, repetitive, and technical. What emerges at the end, however, is a sense of play, humor, and the bizarre as he takes the ordinary to new and captivating realms.
Scout (2006 – 2007) exemplifies several quintessential elements in Hawkinson's work, such as absurdist humor. Hawkinson lashed together pieces of cardboard boxes discarded by the garment factory beneath his studio to create the sculpture’s disproportioned body. He chose to assemble the sculpture from boxes because he thought the material evoked leather or skin. As Hawkinson explained, the work is a "sensory homunculus buckskin outfit for a sensory homunculus scout." A sensory homunculus is a distorted human figure that reflects the relative space our body parts occupy on the somatosensory cortex. Our hands, lips, feet, and sex organs have more sensory neurons than other parts of the body, which Hawkinson expressed with comedic gesture.
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Scout
Sculpture
2006-200769 1/2 x 103 x 68 in. (176.53 x 261.62 x 172.72 cm)
Tim Hawkinson (San Francisco, California, 1960 - ) Primary
Object Type: Sculpture
Medium and Support: Cardboard, box strapping and urethane foam
Credit Line: Gift of the Lipman Family Foundation
Accession Number: 2013.12
Exhibition
Our whole, unruly selves, November 19, 2021 - June 25, 2022, North, South and Central Skylight Galleries, San José Museum of Art. Initial Public Offering: New Works from SJMA’s Permanent Collection, March 1, 2014 - August 24, 2014, New Wing, First floor, Gibson Family Gallery and Plaza Gallery, San José Museum of Art.
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Initial Public Offering: New Works from SJMA’s Permanent Collection (2014)
Tim Hawkinson's work is sometimes difficult to describe, much less categorize. He often uses readily available materials—found, everyday objects, and his own body—as medium, reference, and model. His process can be long and arduous, labor intensive, repetitive, and technical. What emerges at the end, however, is a sense of play, humor, and the bizarre as he takes the ordinary to new and captivating realms.
Scout (2006 – 2007) exemplifies several quintessential elements in Hawkinson's work, such as absurdist humor. Hawkinson lashed together pieces of cardboard boxes discarded by the garment factory beneath his studio to create the sculpture’s disproportioned body. He chose to assemble the sculpture from boxes because he thought the material evoked leather or skin. As Hawkinson explained, the work is a "sensory homunculus buckskin outfit for a sensory homunculus scout." A sensory homunculus is a distorted human figure that reflects the relative space our body parts occupy on the somatosensory cortex. Our hands, lips, feet, and sex organs have more sensory neurons than other parts of the body, which Hawkinson expressed with comedic gesture.
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