“No Reliable Data Available” Exhibit

Explore the multimedia work of artist Tim Harper. With a background including Design, Collage, and Found Object Sculpture, Tim has a keen interest in projects that occupy the space between science and art. His pieces started as daily drawing exercises. Each morning, Tim draws on a tablet with his morning coffee, mostly birds and flowers. Eventually he started adding collage from old maps, graphs, charts, and his own photos. That grew into experiments transferring his digital collages to wood, then adding more traditional collage/drawing/painting on top. He did not start with any plan for these pieces; at each step he responded to what the imagery was doing until he felt like something interesting was happening. Some of the collage elements are from old survey maps, which included blank areas labeled ‘No Reliable Data Available.’ He thought that was a fitting title, as many of the pieces include data suggesting a story, but not necessarily a reliable one.