Early Life :
Tom Curtis was born in Oklahoma in 1953. He was the oldest of four children. His talent and interest in art was recognized at the age of twelve. He spent two years in college after which he moved to Dallas, Texas where he opened a stained glass studio. In 1977 he went to the San Francisco Art Institute. Tom Curtis was involved not only in art but also in performing art, video, film and experimental music. He currently stays in California with his wife and daughter.
Work:
The mixed media paintings of Tom Curtis have emblematic forms interchanged with abstract. Subject matters in the mixed media paintings involve the sacred, the sacrilegious and the fundamental. Ritualistic forms and patterns have as much importance as absurdity in the mixed media paintings of Tom Curtis. Much of the inspiration for the mixed media paintings of Tom Curtis comes from tribal and Asian art, specially the Zen form of brush painting characters. The mixed media painting of Tom Curtis is also inspired by the Tibetan sand painting known as Mandala. Art history, science and anthropology try to find new trails and associations through the mixed media paintings of Tom Curtis.
The mixed media paintings of Tom Curtis are extreme advances on unconventional forms of art. The paint is allowed to flow freely and colors intermingle in infinite ways in the mixed media paintings of Tom Curtis.
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