Now Or Never Now

About

Tiffany Livingston creates paintings that encapsulate the serenity and chaos of the cosmos. Proceed with caution and curiosity, for here is a tangible war of polarizing forces. A calamity of nature and destruction, within the wrath of creation -the canvases shapeshift under prolonged inspection.

Similarly to the Sirens’ seductive melody, Livingston lures the viewer into a minefield of color, brushstrokes, drips, scratches and layers of texture which effortlessly morph into forests, flowers, and pools. Once caught in this psychological web, she plays with the mercy of the imagination. Wandering eyes travel across vaguely recognizable yet non-specific landscapes as they alter from pure shape to supposed object, only to ceaselessly disrupt the viewers desire for familiarity. What first appears to resemble three semi-translucent white moons floating in a midnight sky, suddenly transform into glowing microorganisms the next instant. The mind alternates between visualizing cosmic and molecular ecosystems from the same composition. Particles in space-time come together and fall apart in the mind’s eye, again and again into something new.

Livingston’s abstractions are individually suggestive of the infinity of potential—isolation, the darkside of nature in its most consuming and purest form. We are reduced to dust, dissolved and reborn, free and limitless. Prepare, then, to enter an unmarked abyss and venture into timelessness where the prehistoric and post-apocalyptic look eerily identical. Now or Never Now.

For Livingston, the creative process emulates a private performance. With influences from Rothko, Frankenteller, and love for music, her fleeting moods and gestures are best explored and painted late at night in extremely dark rooms. In this atmosphere, surrounded by orchestrated ambiance, a painting becomes a stage for the liberation of expressive movements. These painted worlds emerge when the artist welcomes unexpected mysterious techniques by learning to see things differently in the dark. Not only do the paintings reveal a multi-verse of visual stimulations, each one also immortalizes Livingston’s visual alchemy where light, texture, and color collide into a controlled yet beautiful chaos.

Tiffany Livingston currently lives and works in Los Angeles. After earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting/Drawing from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia (2011), she pursued a Master of Fine Arts from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art (2014). Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Texas, and New York. Some of her past shows include ​Your attica on the pacific, ​Tiger Strikes Asteroid​. ​Los Angeles. CA (2014); ​Rocks in Soft Places. H​ ooloon Gallery. Philadelphia. PA (2014); ​Popular Panorama, S​ ecret Recipe.​ ​Los Angeles, CA (2015); ​Women on the fence,​ Mothership. Desert Hot Springs, CA (2016); T​he Reflection in the Sword of Holofernes, ​GAR Gallery. Galveston, TX (2016); ​Los Angeles Bound​, Thomas Erben Gallery.NewYork,NY(2016);​MagicMarkers,P​ opUp​.L​ osAngeles,CA(2018);​VanitybyVeritas, Bozo Mag. Los Angeles, CA (2018).

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