Erotic and poetic narratives are wrought through Timothy Hullââ¬â¢s richly textured and sprawling surfaces patterned with iconographic Greek, Coptic and early Arabic glyphs and imagery laid out in painterly washes, splashes and splatters. Recurrent motifs of Attic vases and silhouettes of the erotic figures of Kourous and Endymion are featured in one series of portraits. In another series, a stacking of painted tablets address the obfuscation of linguistic memory over time. In his intense layering and geometric abstraction, the density of Hullââ¬â¢s composition is formally loaded with the sensibilities of abstract art rubbing against a camp imagining of a Classical past.
