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Corn Rows, watercolor, 7.5" x
15" |
The Beginning of Something, watercolor,
25" x 15"
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Tom Torluemke is an artist whose considerable
skills enable him to work in virtually any artistic style, format,
or medium. During the past few years, he has moved from paintings,
sculptures, and drawings that could be playfully described as 'magic
super-(sur)realism' to a body of work even more personal in character.
These nonobjective pieces present intensely autobiographical themes
relating to life experiences, states of being, and states of mind.
Torluemke is able to move abstraction from a field where formal design
considerations are paramount, to a realm where the highly abstracted
or invented nonobjective elements serve as expressive metaphors for
emotions, even physical states or particular past encounters that
inspire or concern him. The resulting works of art present internal
landscapes which follow their own logic; while they do not speak the
language of conventional representation, they are nonetheless full
of feeling due to Torluemke's skillful manipulation of imaginative
forms. Mastering one type of representation, he has moved on to invent
another for those viewers receptive to immersing themselves in, and
recognizing the universals within, his world of passionate abstraction.
Gregg Hertzlieb, Director,
excerpt from catalogue, In The
Company of Strangers
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