Post #638830 by The Monitors on Fri, Jun 1, 2012 9:53 AM

"Burning Brushes and the Great Art Machine"

"Now that Tim has honed his natural talent and evolved it to his own personal style that defines him. The artist needs to connect to the collector, and the gallery is going to act as the middleman. Around 1997 he preceded to La Luz De Jesus gallery, which Shire owns and handed him a portfolio of his latest work. With his trademark raspy voice Shire calmly says, “It looks like Shag.” Bewildered Tim admits, “I’ve never heard of Shag before and was like…what?” So he immediately went online, Googled Shag and concedes, “I see what [Billy] sees.” At this point he gave up on finding a gallery and decided it wasn’t going to happen. Life is funny sometimes, because the minute you stop looking for something, that something present itself to you."

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