Timothy Hutto (°1981, St. Petersburg, United States) is an artist who mainly works within photography. Through the study of sign processes, signification and figure-ground relationships, Hutto touches overlapping themes of relativism and code through color theory and composition. Recurring subject matter can be recognized, such as mass-produced objects and their relationship with popular culture and media, working with recontextualization, the process of play and the investigation of interpretation.
Referring to the meta-narratives found in mass culture. Using color, plain objects and ambiguous linguistic messages a world where the unexceptional is elevated is created. His subject matter comments on the everyday aesthetic of the American middle class. Associations and meanings collide. Ready made objects become profound statements and image becomes commentary.
Characterized by the use of familiar objects in an atmosphere of vivid color in which meanings surpass the saturated presentation. His process is informed by post-structural play, binary opposition and dissonance; he often creates work by imposing specific compositional rules on himself. Boundaries are a serious matter; Inside the frame different rules apply than in everyday life and everyday objects undergo transubstantiation.
His works question the everyday in the context of contemporary visual culture.
Timothy Hutto currently lives and works in New York City