Tom Burckhardt "Pretty Little Liars"

Tibor de Nagy Gallery

poster for Tom Burckhardt "Pretty Little Liars"

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The gallery presents an exhibition of new abstract paintings by Tom Burckhardt. It marks the artist’s fifth solo show with the gallery. The exhibition will comprise twenty small and medium sized oil paintings. The works are all painted on cast plastic, a material that is poured into molds made by the artist. He has painted trompe l’oeil thumbtacks and folds of canvas on the sides of the pieces, the effect of which is that the works inhabit a space somewhere between painting and sculpture.

The paintings are abstract but suggest references to architecture, landscape, and human forms. The paintings invoke a sense of pareidolia, a phychological phenomenon whereby the viewer sees a face or some other familiar image in an abstract pattern. Many of the works are filled with exquisite and precise detail; others are more muted, with broad patterns.

[Image: Tom Burckhardt "Demon Brother" (2012) oil on cast plastic 32 x 40 in.]

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from October 17, 2012 to November 24, 2012

Artist(s)

Tom Burckhardt

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