With an emphasis on storytelling as a universal form of human self-understanding, Timothy Buckwalter's paintings blend together images from the recent past to create tales and statements of anxiety, desire, idiocy, anger, joy and fear. Drawings from magazine illustrations, cartoons and comic strips are appropriated from their original source for the paintings and drawings. Using design software on a computer, Buckwalter recombines and edits the images into new narratives. From there, Buckwalter prints the bits out and repaints them by hand on to kinetic fields of color.

Originally from Pennsylvania, Timothy Buckwalter (born 1966) now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He graduated magna cum laude from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. Buckwalter has been included in the Linz Biennale and exhibited nationally at De/Chiara Stewart Gallery in New York, Elizabeth Leach Gallery in Portland, Rebecca Ibel Gallery in Columbus, Lizabeth Olivers in Oakland, Four Walls, Southern Exposure, The Luggage Store and Braunstein/Quay in San Francisco.