PAINTINGS BY THOMAS GALLAGHER
One of my very first
jobs was at Meola Scenic Studios painting (60' x 30') back drops that
were ultimately trucked down to NYC (the Metropolitan Opera House). I
got to paint faux marble flooring standing on top of the drop using a 4'
paint brush. I put the blue in the sky with a pump spray atomizer in an
adjacent studio. Up on a ladder to cut giant Styrofoam rocks with what
looked like hedge trimmers. But mostly I washed brushes for all the
other wonderfully talented people that I worked with. Whenever I picked
up a brush that experience was always with me: the scale, the freedom,
and the motion.
It’s been many years since I put paint
to canvas. It is calling me again. I can feel it. Perhaps a little
retrospective is in order (albeit an incomplete one). More to come...
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| Duchamp – 1990, Acrylic on wood (24" x 35.5") |
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| figure study – 1990, Acrylic on canvas |
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| figure study – 1990, Acrylic on canvas
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Untitled (dream painting) – 1988, Oil paint, plaster, fabric, canvas stretchers (48" x 60")
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| Untitled – 1988, Oil on canvas (34" x 40")
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| Untitled – 1988, Oil on canvas
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| Untitled – 1988, Oil on canvas
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| Untitled (glazing study) – 1988, Oil on canvas
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| Untitled (complimentary color study) – 1988, Oil on canvas
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