Tim Davis reads PerfectlyNormalPoems

Saturday, September 26, 2009 | 7pm | $5

The Bridge in partnership with the UVa McIntire Department of Art presents an evening with artist in residence Tim Davis. Davis will read from a new, unpublished manuscript called “Contemporary Myrrh”.

This event is in conjunction with an exhibition of Davis’ photographic work entitled “My Life In Politics” , on display through October 23rd at UVa’s Ruffin Gallery.

Tim Davis is an artist an writer living in Tivoli, New York, and teaching photography at Bard College and Yale University. His latest show, called “The New Antiquity,?”will be at Greenberg Van Doren Gallery in New York, Sept-October, 2009. He is the author of five books of photographs: THE NEW ANTIQUITY (Damiani, 2009), MY LIFE IN POLITICS (Aperture, 2006), ILLILLUMINATIONS (Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, 2006), PERMANENT COLLECTION (Nazraeli Press, 2005), and LOTS (Coromandel Express, 2002). He is also the author of two books of poems: AMERICAN WHATEVER (Edge Books, 2004), and DAILIES (The Figures, 2000). His photographs are in the collections of the Guggenheim, Metropolitan, Whitney, Hirshhorn, Walker, High and many other museums, and he has had solo exhibitions in New York, London, Los Angeles, Chicago, Brussels, Geneva, Atlanta and Miami. Davis was a Discovery Award finalist at the 2004 Arles Photography Festival and was the Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize Fellow in residence at the American Academy in Rome in 2007-08.  He is represented by Greenberg Van Doren Gallery (NY).

See www.davistim.com for more information.