One thing I love about Boston is the constant churn of new ideas and new work.This year’s Boston Young Contemporaries Exhibition is a case in point. From painting to print-making, photography, sculpture, and video, it featured the work of university and college graduates from across the region.Among those whose work was chosen for display by the art jurors is my friend Tim Geers. A talented and gregarious cameraman and former comrade in television, Tim long ago mastered what have become the low arts of local TV news and has now certifiably mastered the fine arts of video with a recent degree from the Art Institute of Boston.
If you’ve watched local TV news, chances are you’ve seen some of Tim’s day work that flashes onto the screen: glances into violent crime, violent crashes, violent storms, and even violent sports. Violence is the real V-chip that comes with modern life and the medium of television news that has itself become a violent assault upon the viewers’ intelligence.
“Tim counters his frustration with these industry-imposed reductions ,” writes one of his professors, “in a series of video vignettes in which his alert and privileged eye reveals the significant cores of physical and psychological pain that reside beneath the surface we are shown on ‘The Nightly News’.
Take a look at Tim’s two powerful pieces of video art chosen by the jury for the Boston Young Contemporaries Exhibition. Writes a reviewer for the Boston Globe: :My pick for best in show goes to video artist Tim Geers, whose incisive, powerfully disturbing “Eleanor” critiques US policy in the Middle East…[it’s} magnetic and captivating.”
And hear an interview with Tim on Radio Boston.
