"Working within the strict format of the vertical stripe, Tim Bavington explores methods of designing his paintings, from intuition and chance to architectural systems and bar-coding. In recent years his interest has turned to music: He transposes samples--riffs, guitar solos and entire songs--into stripes by combining the 12-tone musical scale with a 12-hue color palette. Notes are assigned colors, and the length each note is held determines stripe widths. He then uses a spray gun to apply paint so that lines blend, bleed and fuse into a continuous field. Tim Bavington surveys the development of his stripe work over eight years, with particular attention to the musical period that opened in 2002."