TOM BREAK
Artist and Writer
Exhibition Archive
RENAISSANCES
Based on Michelangelo's entrance to the Laurentian Library, the works in this site-specific installation use architectural forms to explore the tension between the idea of a 're-birth' of classical culture and the emergence of a new dark age.
Harrison Center for the Arts, Indianapolis, IN
GRADATIONS
A collection of small works exploring geometric constructions, arithmetic sequences, and human proportions. Editions of hand-made multiples are available through the artist.
3Mass Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
THE OCEAN IS WHAT I MEANT BY
These works lift a line from Ben Lerner's Mean Free Path, cutting the words "The ocean is what I meant by" over and over again into black tulle, which is then layered and mounted in handmade wood frames.
Leavitt Gallery, Iowa City, IA
Work included in:
References, Tambaran Gallery, NYC
Party Lines, New York Studio Gallery, NYC
Art and the Restoration of Value
A four-part essay for Genealogies of Modernity about art and value.
Modern Art and Truth
A three-part essay in Genealogies of Modernity about modernist painting and the desire for a true art.
What Happened When the Lights Went Out
An essay for Dappled Things about electricity, light, and the wake of technological failure.
Susan Rothenberg's Search for the Real
An essay for The New Criterion in memoriam of Susan Rothenberg and her enormous legacy for painting.
Notes on the Vocation of Being a Teacher
An essay for the Circe Institute about an oft-overlooked difficulty borne by the teachers of the world.
MEDITATIONS
This exhibition at Sterling College in Kansas combined Tom's most recent tulle multiples (Cross, Night, and Dove) with his Stations of the Cross.
Work also included in:
Together With, The Bubbler, Madison, WI
and RMCAD, Denver, CO
