WORK

WORK

Cold Cell, 2016

Oil on panel

Untitled (Celo 1), 2016

Oil on panel

Untitled (Girder), 2016

Oil on panel

Untitled (Window), 2016

Oil on panel

Untitled (Panels), 2015

Oil on panel

Ostia, 2015

Oil on panel

The Somnambulist, 2015

Oil on panel

Ubu Roi, 2015

Oil on panel

Untitled (Frames 1), 2015

Oil on panel

Untitled (to Peter), 2015

Oil on panel

Untitled (Steel 1), 2015

Oil on panel

Untitled (Steel 2), 2015

Oil on panel

Untitled (Steel 4), 2015

Oil on panel

Rotkäppchen, 2015

Oil on panel

Untitled (to Larry Bell), 2015

Oil on panel

Untitled (Vine), 2015

Oil on panel

Untitled (to Jhonn), 2015

Oil on panel

Untitled (Narita), 2014

Oil on panel

Cuddlefish, 2011

Oil on panel

The Dog Remembers the Wolf, 2011

Oil on panel

Stifle, 2011

Oil on panel

Untitled, 2011

Oil on panel

Bind 1, 2010

Oil on panel

Bind 2, 2010

Oil on panel

Mountain, 2009

Oil on panel

ARTIST STATEMENT

My paintings are abstractions of the world I inhabit. The images are derived from photographs I have taken in recent years. My most recent body of work began with a series of rock formations I photographed in Narita, Japan. Exchanging earth-tones for flesh-tones and painting them on unpainted wooden panels, I traded the subjects' traditional roles as landscape for portraiture. Intrigued by that exercise in thwarting the familiar, I began using reflective objects to distort images of everyday vistas and environments. I excise details from the reflected images and paint them on both colored and clear-primed wood. Some of the source imagery remains, though highly abstracted by the distortion caused by the irregular surfaces of the objects the reflections are photographed on. I think of these selected images as micro-cosmoses of the world I occupy, at times familiar, but often wholly alien due to even the most minute of distortions to an otherwise familiar set of imagery.

BIOGRAPHY

Thomas Walsh received his B.F.A. in Painting from the University of Houston, and his M.F.A. in Painting from the University of Texas at San Antonio. After graduate school, he returned to Houston where he worked at the Menil Collection for fifteen years until recently moving to Fort Worth, Texas. His work has been exhibited at The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Arizona, the Cactus Bra Space, Three Walls, the UTSA Gallery, the UTSA Satellite Space, and the Southwestern Bell Building in San Antonio, the HCC North Campus Gallery in Houston, Purple Orchid in Dallas, and the Royal Art Lodge in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and has works in the collections of the University of Texas at San Antonio and the Texas Research Park Foundation.

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