Fred Tomaselli
Installation view, Fred Tomaselli, 48 Walker St, October 23 - November 21, 2020
Installation view, Fred Tomaselli, 48 Walker St, October 23 - November 21, 2020
Installation view, Fred Tomaselli, 48 Walker St, October 23 - November 21, 2020
Installation view, Fred Tomaselli, 48 Walker St, October 23 - November 21, 2020
Installation view, Fred Tomaselli, 48 Walker St, October 23 - November 21, 2020
Installation view, Fred Tomaselli, 48 Walker St, October 23 - November 21, 2020
Fred Tomaselli Video Feature. Film by Greg Poole. Produced by James Cohan, 2020.
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
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
Detail
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
Cloud, 2019
Detail
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, 2018
Mixed media and resin on wood panel
60 x 60 in.
152.4 x 152.4 cm
JCG9897
FRED TOMASELLI
Untitled, 2020
Leaves, photo collage, acrylic and resin on panel
48 x 48 inches
JCG11855
FRED TOMASELLI
Untitled, 2020
Detail
FRED TOMASELLI
Untitled, 2019
Photo collage, acrylic and resin on wood panel
30 x 24 in
76.2 x 61 cm
JCG11321
FRED TOMASELLI
Untitled, 2019
Detail
FRED TOMASELLI
Untitled, 2020
Photo collage, acrylic and resin on wood panel
24 x 24 in.
61 x 61 cm
JCG11414
FRED TOMASELLI
Untitled, 2020
Detail
FRED TOMASELLI
March 10, 2020, 2020
Gouache, collage, archival inkjet print on watercolor paper
11 x 12 in
27.9 x 30.5 cm
JCG11552
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
March 14, 2020, 2020
Gouache, collage and archival inkjet print on paper
11 x 12 in
27.9 x 30.5 cm
JCG11438
FRED TOMASELLI
March 16, 2020, 2020
Gouache, acrylic on archival ink jet print
11 x 12 1/8 in.
27.9 x 30.5 cm
JCG11425
FRED TOMASELLI
March 19, 2020, 2020
gouache, collage and archival inkjet print on watercolor paper
11 x 12 in
27.9 x 30.5 cm
JCG11468
FRED TOMASELLI
March 20, 2020, 2020
gouache, collage and archival inkjet print on watercolor paper
11 x 12 in
27.9 x 30.5 cm
JCG11449
FRED TOMASELLI
March 27, 2020, 2020
Gouache, collage and archival inkjet print on watercolor paper.
11 x 12 in
27.9 x 30.5 cm
JCG11479
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
April 12, 2020, 2020
Gouache, collage and archival inkjet print on watercolor paper
11 x 12 in
27.9 x 30.5 cm
JCG11475
FRED TOMASELLI
June 1, 2020, 2020
Gouache, collage and archival inkjet print on watercolor paper
11 x 12 in
27.9 x 30.5 cm
JCG11803
FRED TOMASELLI
June 2, 2020, 2020
Gouache, collage and archival inkjet print on watercolor paper
11 x 12 in
27.9 x 30.5 cm
JCG11804
FRED TOMASELLI
July 31, 2020, 2020
Gouache and collage and archival inkjet print on watercolor paper
11 x 12 in
27.9 x 30.5 cm
JCG11802
FRED TOMASELLI
August 21, 2020, 2020
Collage, ink and gouache on archival inkjet print
11 x 12 1/2 in
27.9 x 31.8 cm
JCG11884
FRED TOMASELLI
September 19, 2020, 2020
collage, acrylic, archival inkjet print on water color paper
11 x 12 1/2 in
27.9 x 31.8 cm
JCG11892
James Cohan is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by Fred Tomaselli, on view from October 23 through November 21 at 48 Walker Street. This is the artist's sixth solo exhibition with James Cohan and his first major presentation of new paintings in New York since 2014. The gallery will host an all-day, limited-capacity opening reception with the artist on Saturday, October 24 that adheres to state COVID-19 safety guidelines. Please click here to book an appointment.
Please click here to explore the exhibition in our Viewing Room.
Since the early 1990’s, Fred Tomaselli has created multimedia paintings which explode in mesmerizing and hallucinatory patterns. Their various components—organic matter from his garden, collaged elements from printed sources, and hand-painted fauna and ornament—are all suspended in layers of clear, polished resin. There is always a suggestion of transformation in the materials encapsulated in resin, creating a tension between the dynamism of the image and the stasis of its medium.
The eight new paintings on view in this exhibition represent the first major body of work to marry Tomaselli’s resin paintings with his ongoing New York Times collages. Tomaselli’s interest in newsprint as material has become an extended exploration into the power of news media to shape and reshape our perceptions of reality. Conceptually, these fragments of media are similar to the psychoactive and psychedelic drugs he terms “reality modification devices,” which were prevalent in his work throughout the 1990’s and noticeably absent from this recent work. Tomaselli has traded one sort of buzz for another, replacing pills with text and headlines pulled directly from The New York Times.
Tina Rivers Ryan, PhD, Assistant Curator at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, has written an essay, “High Times,” to accompany the exhibition. Please click here to read the full text.
