As in his paintings, artist Tim Bavington translates musical notation into mathematical sequences, but with additional possibilities that three-dimensional medium allows. The sculptural form is rendered as a free-standing Color Field painting in which a variety of different size square tubing creates a subtle interplay of light, shadow, and color unattainable on the flat surface of a canvas.

By the end of his studies with critic Dave Hickey in the MFA program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, he had formed his own brand of optical abstraction which combined an immaculate quality, characteristic to graphic design, with the awareness of the sensual properties inherent in color. This new work also relied on the synaesthetic potential of non-figurative painting—a trait explored by a string of 20th century artists from Wassily Kandinsky to Gene Davis. While Bavington's formal approach to painting was the result of his training in the US, the content of his work owes a great deal to his UK upbringing. Bavington was born in Norwich in 1966, the year England won the World Cup and TIME magazine dedicated the entire issue to 'Swinging London.' Growing up England in the 1970s and early 80s Bavington was steeped in rock-and-roll music and everything associated with it. Music by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Verve, Paul Weller, and later Oasis and The Darkness became the basis of his paintings (the latter band's song Physical S.E.X. from the album “Permission to Land” is the subject of his eponymous canvas, now in the collection of New York MoMA.) After a decade of only working in 2D, following his 2000 graduation from the UNLV, Bavington expanded his work into sculpture. In 2010 he received his first General Services Administration Art in Architecture Award for a large-scale installation for the Otay Mesa Land Port of Entry between the US and Mexico. Although at the time the project was not funded beyond the design and development phase, in 2012 Bavington applied some of the research to another monumental public sculpture commissioned for the newly-built Smith Center for Performing Arts in downtown Las Vegas. Pipe Dream—a 28 foot tall and 80 foot long sculpture in automotive paint on steel, visualizes Aaron Copland classic “Fanfare for the Common Man.” The following year, Bavington received a second GSA Art in Architecture Award for the Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Building in Portland, Oregon. The completed aluminum and plexiglass sculpture “Louie Louie” is based on the song recorded by the Kingsmen and Paul Revere & the Raders at Portland sound studio Northwestern Recorders in 1963. In 2014 Bavington received a GSA Excellence in Design Award for the project. He is currently working on the GSA Otay Mesa Land Port of Entry project that was finally funded for construction in 2019, and is scheduled for completion and installation in 2024.