TIM RAY

Musicien - plasticien

de VANCOUVER

Portrait de Tim Ray en 1982.

intitulé: "Le Rire Jaune."

Tim à Neuilly dans l'atelier durant

l'hiver 1982/83.

Nicolas, Tim et Benjamin

le même jour.

Tim et Benjamin.

Tim dans l'atelier du rez de chaussée

à Neuilly en mars 1983.

Le même jour.

Devant l'Assemblée des Condamnés du jour.

Tim en avril 2007 à Vancouver.

Peintures de Tim en 2007

C'est Benjamin qui me fit rencontrer Tim Ray à la fin de l'année

1982 à Neuilly sur-seine. Tim alors musicien Post Punk

venu de Vancouver avec son disque et un film, cherchait à se

produire sur Paris. Il travailla avec des musiciens de l'école de

Jazz et fit quelques soirées au Gibus de l'époque.

Il vivotait en faisant des petits travaux de peinture en

batiment et dormait chez les uns et les autres en recevant

de petits chèques de la SACEM. Il fut hospitalisé à l'hôpital

St Louis pour des problèmes de sang.

D'octobre 1982 à mars 1983, il vécut chez moi et

crayonnait déjà ces motifs qu'il développe aujourd'hui

sur de plus grands supports.

Ces textes  étaient déjà à l'époque des sortes

de collages "cubistes" mis sous formes de chansons.

Son disque était intéressant, dommage que je ne l'ai pas enregistré

à l'époque! Benjamin en a gardé un exemplaire, un maxi 45 t.

Bref je vais essayer de retrouver sa trace, pour mettre au

point un catalogue de ses oeuvres peintes.

Et puis, finalement j'ai retrouvé Tim, et ces pages vont s'étoffer..

Just interviewed Vancouver "New Wave"/punk/anti-folk pioneer, painter, and filmmaker Tim Ray for Discorder, about some really cool, relatively unheard music of his, his time as a visual artist in New York, and various other such things; alas, Discorder didn't use any of the images he passed on! Thought I'd post them here so people could see his work and what Tim looks like these days. Photo by Victoria Hollingum, taken at the Pointed Sticks' Vancouver afternoon reunion show, where I ran into Tim in the audience. Thanks, Vic!

 T.Ray The Lowdown: Punks and painters.

A veteran of both the Vancouver and New York art/music scenes in the late '70s and '80s, the artist born Tim Ray has surfaced again to contribute to a growing interdisciplinary art milieu in this town. His most recent project is an on-line gallery currently showing a series of four expressionistic paintings from one of the artist's own ongoing projects. Coordinates: The on-line art gallery (www.njams.net/) is part of Not Just Another Music Shop's home page and will eventually host works by local pop luminaries such as David Ostrem and Vicki M. Process-oriented: T.Ray thinks of his creative practice as an expanded field that includes music, drawing, painting, and filmmaking, among other experiments. Best known for his short films, some of which juxtapose '50s science-film footage with an idiosyncratic soundtrack, the artist sees humour as an effective way to question the violence implicit in the modern idea of progress through technological innovation. His 60-by-90-centimetre ink-and-pastel paintings tend to be fleshy explosions of yellow, orange, red, and black marked by a whimsical sense of line and flair. Teetering on the verge of total abstraction, the four on-line pieces have been characterized by the artist as "satirical reliefs that court the absurd". What it all means: "I sometimes think the western canon can be too tight. Outsider art helped open it up a bit and my stuff might have something in common with that," the artist says in an interview at a Main Street café. "I try to go to the edges."