The Timken’s fifth artist-in-residence, Tatiana Ortiz-Rubio will create her monumental drawings exploring memory and the blues of atmospheric perspective in June, culminating in a site-specific installation on view July 19 – September 29.

The installation In Blue Time will be an exploration of memory, distance, and as the title suggests, the color blue. As Ortiz-Rubio stated, “Memory is written once, then rewritten, manipulated, reinvented and recreated. Each time we reach for a memory it becomes something else. Forgetting is the distance from our past, the nebulous blue horizon of a memory standing at the edge allowing us to continuously reshape who we are.”

In addition to In Blue Time in the Dutch/Flemish Gallery, Ortiz-Rubio has exciting plans for the Timken’s temporary Exhibition Gallery. Ortiz-Rubio will delve into her longstanding interest in memory, color, and atmospheric perspective—the observation that forms become less distinct as they recede in pictorial space. She will create one or two large monochromatic blue drawings on paper, exploring her personal take on the experience of memory and forgetting. Additionally, an insightful collection of Ortiz-Rubio’s small, mixed-media studies of atmospheric perspective in other paintings in the Timken collection will be on display. Finally, a recent large-scale drawing, created in collaboration with musical composer Stefan Cwik and inspired by the concept of time, will be installed, furthering the summer’s In Blue Time theme.