Fred Tomaselli
Fred Tomaselli
Fred Tomaselliis an American artist. He is best known for his highly detailed paintings on wood panels, combining an array of unorthodox materials suspended in a thick layer of clear, epoxy resin. Tomaselli is represented by James Cohan Gallery in the United States and by White Cube gallery in the United Kingdom...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
CountryUnited States of America
funny people work
A lot of people don't think of my work as being all that funny, but I think it's hilarious!
maintain populist
I don't know if I'm a populist artist, but I do try to maintain a spirit of generosity.
art music
I like the idea of multidisciplinary conversations, so in that spirit, I try and make a contribution from the art world into the music world.
amount bunch discourse funny guess museum painting people
The small amount of people that control the discourse around painting - I thought that the whole museum world was just a bunch of phonies, and I didn't really want to have anything to do with it. I guess I did installations, in a funny way, because they couldn't be commodified.
asian aspects experience punk rooted work
There are aspects of Asian culture in my work, but it's really rooted in an American experience - transcendentalism, '60s counterculture, punk rock.
best manage
I don't embrace irony, but I do think it's a pre-existing condition; we manage it as best we can.
art believe form
I've come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.
good
I wouldn't know any other way to live except to be an artist. I'm not very good at anything else.
classify stuff until
I kind of have a Victorian sensibility - I don't understand stuff until I can classify it and name it.
art believe form
Ive come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.
smart get-to-know-me know-me
I'm actually pretty smart when you get to know me.
art school stuff
I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.
thinking people
A lot of people dont think of my work as being all that funny, but I think its hilarious!
art reality perception
Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities.