In 2000, Tim Hussey made a conscious decision to embark on his fine art career after 15 years as an award-winning and internationally recognized editorial illustrator. This was not a complete departure from his past efforts, as a significant part of his commercial success rested on his ability to merge the emotional and ethereal power of fine art into his illustration work.
Throughout Tim’s commercial years in New York, he achieved a level of success that set the foundation for the switch from publications to galleries. His experience beginning in 1992, painting live sets for MTV, then moving through several years of appearances in most every major publication from Rolling Stone to Ray Gun to the New York Times. Eventually art directing several of these magazines (GQ, Musician, Outside...) gave Tim the advantage of understanding both sides of the business, leading him to teach advanced courses at the School of Visual Arts in New York. After receiving American Illustration’s “Top 20 Images of the Year” award, being recognized annually by Print Magazine and Communication Arts and joining the ranks of picturemechanics.com, a consortium of the top illustrators in nation, Tim decided to head in the direction he had in mind from the beginning, the fine arts.
Since then, his paintings have been exhibited in solo and double shows throughout the U.S. (New York, Nashville, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Detroit, South Carolina, Santa Fe), most recently at Shepard Fairey’s gallery Subliminal Projects in L.A., and Art Basel, Miami. Tim’s work has been represented by Zeitgeist Gallery in Nashville for the past 6 years. His fine art can be found in several books including Mark Murphy’s Dialogue, and Why? and Steve Heller’s Handwritten.
Tim moved from New York City, taking up residence in Santa Fe, Nashville and ultimately in his hometown of Charleston, SC.
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