Fred Tomaselli
Born, 1956, Santa Monica, California
Lives and works in Brooklyn

Fred Tomaselli is best known for abstract compositions and fictive landscapes that incorporate such non-traditional elements as pills, biological illustrations and medicinal herbs. “Painting has traditionally been seen as a window onto another reality, a kind of rectangular utopia of relief. I am interested in the relationship between this myth and the broader culture that contains it…My work aims to be escapist while simultaneously exploring the perceptual and cultural dynamics of escapism.”