Timothy McCool is an Austin, Texas-based artist and educator. Originally from Pittsburgh, PA, McCool earned his Master’s of Fine Arts from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, in Boston, MA.
Highlights and shadows fall indiscriminately across architectural spaces, illuminating and obscuring. Colors change, warming and cooling, depending on the angle of the sun. McCool is curious about the various techniques that artists can employ to recreate and reinvent these rich visual perceptions. The act of translating the three-dimensional onto a flat two-dimensional plane offers an opportunity for creative interpretation and expansion.
McCool’s work has been featured in solo exhibitions at LAUNCH F18 in NYC, NY, Room 68 Gallery in Provincetown, MA, and the Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA. He has participated in group exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Boston Center for the Arts, and the Gerry-Wood Gallery at the Rhode Island School of Design, in Providence, RI. Recent shows include solo exhibitions at the Rusteberg Gallery at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in Brownsville, TX, at Anderson Yezerski in Boston, MA, and a group exhibition at the Athens Institute of Contemporary Art in Athens, GA. He has previously been an artist in residence at the Boston Center for the Arts, the Studios Program at MASS MoCA, the Arteles Creative Center in Finland, and most recently at the Bryn Du Mansion in Granville, OH in fall 2023.
McCool is the co-founder of the DIY exhibition space Goodluckhavefun, operated out of a garage in Austin, TX.
