{{Short description|American painter and educator (1947–2025)}} {{Infobox person | name = Timothy App | image = File:Timothy App.jpg | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth year|1947}} | birth_place = Akron, Ohio, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and given age|2025|11|19|78}} | death_place = | occupation = Artist, educator, curator | known_for = Abstract painting | training = | movement = Abstract art, minimalist art | notable_works = ''Avatar'' (1998), ''Leviathan'' (2001), ''Crucifer'' (2007) | patrons = | awards = }}
'''Timothy App''' (1947 – November 19, 2025) was an American contemporary painter, curator and educator.<ref name="Civin-2013">{{Cite web |last=Civin |first=Marcus |date=May 22, 2013 |title=There’s an App for that |url=http://citypaper.com/arts/visualart/there-8217-s-an-app-for-that-1.1492814 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140101202556/http://citypaper.com/arts/visualart/there-8217-s-an-app-for-that-1.1492814 |archive-date=January 1, 2014 |website=CityPaper |publisher=Baltimore Sun}}</ref> He taught at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) from 1990 to 2019.
==Early life and education== Timothy App was born in Akron, Ohio, in 1947.<ref name="Spaulding-2005">{{Cite book |last=Spaulding |first=Karen Lee |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KY00AQAAIAAJ |title=The Natalie and Irving Forman Collection: An Exhibition |date=2005 |publisher=Albright-Knox Art Gallery |others=Albright-Knox Art Gallery |isbn=978-1-887457-04-0 |pages=151 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Phoenix Art Museum-1983">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YYZIAQAAIAAJ |title=The Phoenix Biennial: Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, May 13, 1983-June 19, 1983 |date=1983 |publisher=Phoenix Art Museum |isbn=978-0-910407-03-8 |pages=16 |language=en |via=Google Books}}</ref>
He attended Kent State University in Ohio, where he received a BFA degree in painting in 1970. He continued his study of painting at Tyler School of Art of Temple University and in 1974 received an MFA.<ref name="Phoenix Art Museum-1983" />
== Career == With many one-person and group exhibitions, he showed his abstract paintings regionally, nationally, and abroad. In 1988, his work was the focus of a 20-year survey exhibition at Linda Durham Gallery in Santa Fe.<ref name="Spaulding-2005" /><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ml8WAQAAMAAJ |title=Art Now/U.S.A., Issue 8–11 |date=1984 |publisher=Art Now, Incorporated |volume=3 |pages=17 |language=en |via=Google Books |issue=8–11}}</ref> His work from the previous forty-five years was the subject of a retrospective exhibition in 2013 at American University's Katzen Arts Center in Washington, D.C., and Goya Contemporary in Baltimore.
App was a recipient of a NEA fellowship in painting, as well as an individual artist's grant from the Maryland State Arts Council.
He taught at Pomona College in California, the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, and after 1990 at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA).<ref name="Civin-2013" /> He received the Trustee's Award for Excellence in Teaching at MICA twice, and was nominated for the Richard C. Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship. In addition to teaching and painting, he wrote on the work of other artists, lectured on his own work, and curated exhibitions of abstract painting.
His artwork is in museum collections, including the Albuquerque Museum,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Timothy App |url=https://albuquerque.emuseum.com/people/619/timothy-app/objects |access-date=2024-11-17 |website=Albuquerque Museum}}</ref> Buffalo AKG Art Museum,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Timothy App |url=https://buffaloakg.org/person/timothy-app |access-date=2024-11-17 |website=Buffalo AKG Art Museum}}</ref> and the Baltimore Museum of Art.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Timothy App |url=https://collection.artbma.org/people/1870/timothy-app |access-date=2024-11-17 |website=BMA |language=en}}</ref>
== Death == App died on November 19, 2025, at the age of 78.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wase |first=Case |date=November 20, 2025 |title=Timothy App, award-winning abstract painter and former MICA professor, dies |url=https://www.thebanner.com/obituaries/timothy-app-dead-obituary-mica-painter-ACZAUY4DHNBVHKBNULEZ3J22ZI/ |access-date=November 21, 2025 |work=The Baltimore Banner}}</ref>
== Exhibitions ==
=== Solo exhibitions === * 1988, ''Timothy App: A Survey of Paintings, 1968–1988'', Linda Durham Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.<ref name="Spaulding-2005" /> * 2013, ''The Aesthetics of Precision'', American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C., U.S.<ref name="Civin-2013" /> * 2013, ''The Aesthetics of Precision'', Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.<ref name="Civin-2013" /> * 2021, ''States of Mind'', Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Houston |first=Kerr |date=March 19, 2021 |title=Utopian Philosophies and Systematic Rigor, Timothy App: States of Mind at Goya Contemporary |url=https://bmoreart.com/2021/03/utopian-philosophies-and-systematic-rigor.html |work=BMoreArt}}</ref> * 2024, ''Timothy App: Equipoise'', Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2024-11-12 |title=BmoreArt’s Picks: November 12-18 |url=https://baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/bmorearts-picks-november-12-18/ |access-date=2024-11-17 |website=Baltimore Fishbowl |language=en-US}}</ref>
=== Group exhibitions === * 2009, ''The Grey Zone: Abstraction and/or Representation Paintings and Drawings by Timothy App and Howie Lee Weiss'', Howard Community College, Columbia, Maryland, U.S.
==See also== * Abstract painting
==References== <references/>
==External links== * ''[https://www.mica.edu/undergraduate-majors-minors/painting-major/timothy-app/ Profile],'' MICA faculty directory
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