Curator's Office has announced the
release of two new prints by Tom Green
from his acclaimed Of This World
body of work recently exhibited in
April at Curator's Office. The two
works were printed by the renowned
master printer David Adamson of Adamson Editions.
For further information on these two prints, please contact Curator's Office at 202.387.1008 or info@curatorsoffice.com.
TOM
GREEN
Of
This World 8 (left)
Of
This World 6 (right)
archival
pigment print on natural watercolor
paper, 330 gsm
28"
x 20" paper size
edition
of 25
2012
For further information on these two prints, please contact Curator's Office at 202.387.1008 or info@curatorsoffice.com.
Of This
World includes 8 of the last
works on paper that the artist made
in 2011, prior to being diagnosed
with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease). The
suite is a lyrical compendium of the
glyphic work the artist is so
well-known for. A horizon line
unites the entire body of work, but
his continued preoccupation with the
semiotics of symbolic form is lucid,
restrained, and powerful.
Tom
Green began working with the glyph
forms in the late sixties, while he
was taking Pre-Columbian courses. He
says, "Studying the Mayan culture, I
was struck by the glyphic carvings
and drawings that seemed so
inventive yet puzzling. So I began
writing notes in a glyphic script to
my friends, not copying the Mayan
forms but trying to create my own
forms that would resonate in a
contemporary mind. Around 1987,
casting about for a new direction, I
tried painting a canvas covered with
glyphs. The glyphs are not a
language. (I try not to repeat
forms) but rather a series of
discreet forms that are to be
interpreted individually. Most are
not abstract but derive from the
sensory experiences of daily life."
J.W.Mahoney
writes, "The most obviously
recognizable element in Tom
Green's eight paper pieces is
something that another master
abstractionist, Mark Rothko,
couldn't avoid: the horizon. Tom
Green's facing a horizon we all
will, that of leaving our
circumstantial world for that
beyond our personal life. Tom's
working both sides of this line,
so far, as his work reflects. But
these pieces are still of this
world, as Tom is."