The artist was associated with the first generation Abstract Expressionists, abandoned art in the sixties, and began again in the seventies with mixed media paintings and assemblages, founded on the belief that by "destroying' the art in its conventional sense he might release its fundamental spiritual energy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Timothy Ely's work "Modal Passage" is illustrated in this review of an Eaton/Shoen Gallery exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.