Tom Burckhardt
The exhibition will comprise 21 pieces. Ten are medium- and large-scale paintings are on linen while the remaining eleven small-scale works are ink on paper. The paintings are abstract but suggest references to architecture, landscape, and human forms. The paintings invoke a sense of pareidolia, a psychological phenomenon whereby the viewer sees a face or some other familiar image in an abstract pattern. Tom’s abstractions are amalgamations of dissociative forms, colors or patterns forced into a given matrix and left to coexist in this tenuous community of various visual vocabularies. In fact, the opportunity for play extends to the stretcher bars themselves which are hand-cut in playful and wobbly forms that humanize the paintings. Read More
