Timothy Callaghan is a contemporary painter who lives and works in Cleveland, OH. His paintings depict a modern American Mid-west landscape. His paintings are about space, the physical space of his immediate environment and the flat space that defines twentieth-century painting. Because the practice of painting predominantly concerns the physical act of seeing, he approaches his work with this in mind. He locates himself within the traditions of genre painting, such as landscape or still life, seeking to sustain the part of the practice of painting that relies upon optical elements that reinforce significance and joy.