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Beyond the flashing neon lights of the strip, an
important—and growing—collection of art lies in
plain sight. you need only know where to look.
by mark ellwood photography by brad swonetz
rtists Tim Bavington and David Ryan share an unassuming studio space downtown
in a sprawling former auto-body shop hunched by a railway siding that delivers ink
and paper to the las Vegas review-Journal's presses. The humble surroundings bear
little evidence of the extraordinary work being done inside by the two most impor-
tant contemporary artists living and creating in Las Vegas today. Bavington, rangy
and charming, is famed for works that visualize rock music in geometric Day-Glo
stripes. Fittingly, he has the affect of a Britpop guitarist as he bounds around the
loftlike studio. "Look at this—I had to make it myself," he says, gesturing to a Rube
Goldberg sort of contraption that helps him achieve the precise color bands for which
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