“I approach landscape painting as a kind of mapmaking—demarcating the qualities of places and inventing ways of characterizing the unknown. When I first started making these pictures, they were perceived as exaggerated, as science-fiction. But in my mind, I am revealing reality.”

Tim Portlock builds pictures slowly, using a variety of technologies including drone photography and software for gaming and special effects. Blending imagery of real-world buildings and city blocks with fantastical elements and imagined landscape settings, he creates uncanny simulated worlds. Don't miss his work on view in "New Grit: Art & Philly Now." 

Tim Portlock, “Sundown” (2011), archival pigment print, 54 x 72 inches

November 15th. Come and visit us on the block at 13th and York St in Philadelphia, PA for our final installment of A Lot More Beautiful. This in collaboration with the Philadelphia Public History Truck and artist Tim Portlock; bring forth an artistic intervention in the 181st District.