Trained as an Industrial Designer, Timerie Gordon creates functional art and site-specific installations as well as serves as a consultant using her creative conceptual thinking and project management skills to facilitate success in various types of projects. She considers herself a problem solver using her trained conceptual thinking abilities.
Timerie works with her architect husband Christian Nielsen, at their design firm Nielsen Architects and Design Studio in Santa Cruz, California. She consults in various creative capacities for retail businesses, non-profits and city entities using her ability to "think outside the box" to problem solve and help clarify and realize goals. Her experience includes work for acclaimed creative departments such as Urban Outfitters Inc. and Barney's NYC creating site specific installations that support their business visions.
Timerie's training at schools such as California College of the Arts, Pilchuck Glass School, The Bay Area Public Art Academy and a degree from Rhode Island School of Design, has given her the opportunity to hone her innate sensibility for the blending of order and beauty, marshalling it through a disciplined and innovative way of seeing the world. She takes a whole systems approach to her creations, considering the short and long term environmental impact and "life" for each creation. Her creations up-cycle materials as much as possible, repurposing found objects and common materials in new ways giving them new life. In the end, she strives to create work that delicately blends conceptual thinking and the execution of ideas with simplicity and dramatic beauty.