
FRED TOMASELLI
Untitled, 2020
Leaves, photo collage, acrylic and resin on panel
60 x 60 in
152.4 x 152.4 cm
JCG11801
FRED TOMASELLI
Untitled, 2020
Detail
FRED TOMASELLI
Untitled, 2020
Leaves, photo collage, acrylic and resin on wood panel
72 x 72 in
182.9 x 182.9 cm
JCG11322
FRED TOMASELLI
Untitled, 2020
FRED TOMASELLI
Untitled, 2020
Leaves, photo collage, acrylic and resin on panel
48 x 48 in
121.9 x 121.9 cm
JCG11855
FRED TOMASELLI
Untitled, 2020
Detail
FRED TOMASELLI
Untitled, 2020
Leaves, photo collage, acrylic and resin on panel
60 x 60 in
152.4 x 152.4 cm
JCG11645
FRED TOMASELLI
Untitled, 2020
Detail
FRED TOMASELLI
March 16, 2020
2020
Gouache, collage and archival inkjet print on paper
11 x 12 in
27.9 x 30.5 cm
JCG11438
FRED TOMASELLI
March 13, 2020
2020
gouache, collage and archival inkjet print on watercolor paper
11 x 12 in
27.9 x 30.5 cm
JCG11469
FRED TOMASELLI
April 9, 2020
2020
Gouache, collage and archival inkjet print on watercolor paper
11 x 12 1/4 in
27.9 x 31.1 cm
JCG11445
FRED TOMASELLI
Cloud
2019
Leaves, photo collage, acrylic and resin on wood panel
60 x 60 in.
152.4 x 152.4 cm
JCG11204
FRED TOMASELLI
Untitled
2019
leaves, photocopies, acrylic and resin on wood panel
60 x 60 in
152.4 x 152.4 cm
JCG10891
FRED TOMASELLI
Untitled, 2019
Detail
FRED TOMASELLI
Jul. 17, 2018
2018
Gouache, collage, and archival inkjet print on watercolor paper
Image size: 10 5/8 x 11 3/4 in
Framed: 16 3/8 x 17 1/2 in.
JCG10085
FRED TOMASELLI
Saturday, April 21, 2018
2018
Acrylic, photo collage, archival inkjet print on paper
43 x 51 1/2 in.
109.2 x 130.8 cm
(Framed: 55 x 63.5 in)
JCG10083
FRED TOMASELLI
After June 2, 2017
2018
Photo collage, leaves, acrylic and resin on wood panel
60 x 60 x 2 in.
152.4 x 152.4 x 5.1 in.
JCG10171
FRED TOMASELLI
Untitled
2018
Leaves, photo collage, acrylic and
resin on wood panel
24 x 24 in.
61 x 61 cm
JCG9735
FRED TOMASELLI
Untitled
2018
Leaves, photo-collage, acrylic and
resin on wood panel
24 x 24 in.
61 x 61 cm.
JCG9664
FRED TOMASELLI
JCG9332
FRED TOMASELLI
Jan. 21, 2016
2016
Collage, gouache, marker, and archival inkjet print on watercolor paper
8 1/2 x 11 in.
21.6 x 27.9 cm
JCG8459
FRED TOMASELLI
Dec. 22, 2015
2016
Collage and gouache on watercolor paper
11 x 14 in.
27.94 x 35.6cm
JCG8460
FRED TOMASELLI
Mob
2015
Leaves, photo-collage, acrylic, and resin on wood panel
84 x 66 in.
213.4 x 167.6 cm
JCG8602
FRED TOMASELLI
After Nov. 11, 2010
2014
Leaves, acrylic, and resin on wood panel
48 x 48 in.
121.9 x 121.9 cm
JCG8311
FRED TOMASELLI
After Nov. 19, 2013
2014
Photo-collage, acrylic, and resin on wood panel
60 x 60 in.
152.4 x 152.4 cm
JCG7028
FRED TOMASELLI
Gyre
2014
Photo-collage, leaves, acrylic, and resin on wood panel
84 x 60 in.
213.4 x 152.4 cm
JCG7000
FRED TOMASELLI
After Oct. 16, 2010
2014
Photo-collage, leaves, acrylic, and resin on wood panel
30 x 24 in.
76.2 x 61 cm
JCG7022
FRED TOMASELLI
Untitled
2013
Mixed media and resin on wood panel
60 x 60 in.
152.4 x 152.4 cm
JCG6450
FRED TOMASELLI
Apr. 6, 2013
2014
Collage, gouache, and archival inkjet print on watercolor paper
10 3/4 x 12 in.
27.3 x 30.5 cm
JCG7019
FRED TOMASELLI
Head
2013
Mixed media and resin on wood panel
90 x 66 in.
228.6 x 167.6 cm
JCG6784
FRED TOMASELLI
Black Star
2013
Mixed media and resin on wood panel
60 x 60 in.
152.4 x 152.4 cm
JCG6394
FRED TOMASELLI
Aug. 29, 2013
2013
Collage, gouache, marker, and archival inkjet print on watercolor paper
10 3/4 x 12 1/4 in.
27.3 x 31.1 cm
JCG6933
FRED TOMASELLI
Penetrators (Large)
2012
Photo-collage, acrylic, resin on wood panel
72 x 72 in.
182.8 x 182.8 cm
JCG6184
FRED TOMASELLI
Mar. 3, 2009
2013
Collage, gouache, marker, and archival inkjet print on watercolor paper
10 3/4 x 12 1/8 in.
27.3 x 30.8 cm
JCG6681
FRED TOMASELLI
Untitled (Entrance)
2012
Leaves, acrylic, and resin on wood panel
72 x 72 in.
182.9 x 182.9 cm
JCG5621
FRED TOMASELLI
Night Music for Raptors - Blue
2011
Photo collage, acrylic and resin on wood panel
60 x 60 in.
150.6 x 150.6 cm
JCG5462
FRED TOMASELLI
Bloom #2
2011
Gouache on photogram
14 x 11 in.
35.6 x 27.9 cm
JCG5273
FRED TOMASELLI
Starling
2010
Photo collage, acrylic and resin on wood panel
80 x 80 in.
203.2 x 203.2 cm
JCG4694
FRED TOMASELLI
Exhibition view at the Aspen Museum of Art, Aspen, CO, 2009
FRED TOMASELLI
Exhibition view at the Aspen Museum of Art, Aspen, CO, 2009
FRED TOMASELLI
Sep. 15, 2005 (Half Page)
2010
Silkscreen and inkjet print
Image size: 11 x 13 1/2 in.
Paper size: 15 x 17 3/8 in.
Edition of 80
FRED TOMASELLI
Big Eye
2009
Photocollage, acrylic, resin on wood panel
82 x 82 in.
208.3 x 208.3 cm
JCG4396
FRED TOMASELLI
Big Stack
2009
Photocollage, acrylic, resin on wood panel
120 x 40 in.
304.8 x 101.6 cm
JCG4404
FRED TOMASELLI
Avian Flower Serpent
2006
Leaves, photocollage, acrylic, gouache and resin on wood panel
84 x 72 1/2 in.
213.4 x 184.2 cm
JCG2913
FRED TOMASELLI
Abductor
2006
Leaves, photocollage, acrylic and resin on wood panel
96 x 78 in.
243.8 x 198.1 cm
JCG2910
FRED TOMASELLI
Migrant Fruit Thugs
2006
Photocollage, leaves, acrylic, gouache and resin on wood panel
78 x 96 in.
198.1 x 243.8 cm
JCG2758
FRED TOMASELLI
Hang Over
2005
Leaves, pills, acrylic, resin on wood panel
84 x 120 in.
213.4 x 304.8 cm
JCG2534
FRED TOMASELLI
Geode
2006
Leaves, photocollage, Acrylic, gouache and resin on wood panel
24 x 24 in.
60.9 x 60.9 cm
JCG2911
FRED TOMASELLI
Halo of Flies
2006
Mixed media, acrylic and resin on wood panel
18 x 18 in.
45.7 x 45.7 cm
JCG2938
FRED TOMASELLI
Guilty
2005
Print
13 x 13 in.
33 x 33 cm
JCG2443
FRED TOMASELLI
Hormone Shake (Large)
1996
mixed media, resin on wood
72 x 54 in.
182.9 x 137.2 cm
JCG1449
FRED TOMASELLI
Hormone Shake (Large) (detail)
FRED TOMASELLI
Blue Circles
1995
Pills, acrylic, resin on wood
74 x 52 in.
188 x 132.1 cm
JCG4972
These chemical cocktails [embedded in the paintings] can no longer reach the brain through the bloodstream and must take a different route to altering perception. In my work, they travel to the brain through the eyes.
—Fred Tomaselli
Drawing upon art historical sources and Eastern and Western decorative traditions, Fred Tomaselli's works explode in mesmerizing patterns that appear to grow organically across his compositions. In the introduction to a 2003 essay on Tomaselli’s work in Parkett magazine, curator James Rondeau writes: “Over the course of the last ten years, Fred Tomaselli has established an international reputation for his meticulously crafted, richly detailed, deliriously beautiful works of both abstract and figurative art. His signature pieces are compelling, hybrid objects: ersatz, or maybe surrogate paintings, or tapestries, or quilts or mosaics. Their various components—both over-the-counter and controlled pharmaceuticals, street drugs, natural psychotropic substances and other organic matter, collaged elements from printed sources, and hand-painted ornament—are all suspended in gleaming layers of clear, polished, hard resin. Forms implode, explode, oscillate, buzz, loop, swirl, and spiral. Actual objects, photographic representations, and painted surfaces co-exist without hierarchy on and in a single picture plane. The combined effect, neither determinably real nor fully illusionistic, is at once electrifying and destabilizing.”
Starting in 2005, Tomaselli has developed a new body of works on paper that transform the front page of The New York Times with gouache and collage. The surreal compositions are ruminations on the absurdity of news cycles and provide him a space to respond to a variety of issues – from regional anecdotes to global crises. As Tomaselli has stated, “I think that maybe the Times collages are quietly political, in that I can riff on anything I want, while the horrors of the world become the background buzz. Maybe I’m saying that the world may be going to hell, but I still keep painting.”
Fred Tomaselli (born 1956, Santa Monica, CA) has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions including the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE (2019); Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA (2018); Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (2016); Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (2014) and the University of Michigan Museum of Art (2014); a survey exhibition at Aspen Art Museum (2009) that toured to Tang Museum in Sarasota, NY and the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY (2010); The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (2004) toured to four venues in Europe and the US; Albright-Knox Gallery of Art (2003); Site Santa Fe (2001); Palm Beach ICA (2001), and Whitney Museum of American Art (1999). His works have been included in international biennial exhibitions including Sydney (2010); Prospect 1 (2008); Site Santa Fe (2004); Whitney (2004) and others. Tomaselli’s work can be found in the public collections of institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum; Albright Knox Art Gallery; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and many others.
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