Tim Cross

Tim Cross is a Seattle-based artist, educator, and curator and exhibits his work throughout the Northwest and occasionally on a national level. Cross received a BA from The Evergreen State College in 1995, and an MFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 2003. As an educator, he serves as associate faculty at Edmonds College, where he teaches painting and drawing.

In addition to his studio practice and teaching, Cross has an extensive background in curating exhibitions. He has organized shows in a variety of venues, including house exhibitions under the name Valley and Taylor, and spent a decade curating exhibitions at Sea-Tac Airport.

Using an assortment of paints, colored liquids, liquid paper, and matches, Cross creates work that combines drawn natural and organic forms with traced and transferred parts of machines and assorted architectural images. His work blends his interests in architecture and construction with his passion for nature and the processes of growth and decay. His abstract work echoes the natural world and its inhabitants.