Timothy Hull’s work is informed by an obsession with politics (“I like subtle, oblique statements”) and secret societies (“There’s a quiet queerness that I love”). While he’s known primarily for his dense, rigorously detailed drawings in graphite or blue gel pen, he’s been painting on a large scale lately. (Perhaps it’s due to a recent studio development that doubled his space.) Hull recently curated “Cover Version (LP)” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (on view until March 20), for which he asked fellow artists to visually remix their favorite album covers. When we visited him, he was gearing up for a new show at Taylor de Cordoba Gallery in Los Angeles in May.
Name: Timothy Hull
Age: 31
Place of origin: Born in New York City. Raised in Warwick, N.Y.
Current location: Brooklyn and family apple farm in Warwick.
Medium: Pen on paper, oil on canvas, plaster, etc.
Current project: Circulating through antiquity and moving forward through time.
Motto: Be the change you want to see in the world.
Best thing you’ve seen lately — not your own: Lee Krasner at Robert Miller. All my love to Lee, who practiced quiet effectiveness.
Hidden talent: Jib sheets and main sheets.
An earlier version of this post misstated the name of the gallery with the Lee Krasner exhibition. It is the Robert Miller gallery not the James Miller.