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Retrospective
The timeline below accesses 400+ images
representing an autobiography of my Painting, 1969 - 2009.
Consider scrolling down & starting at
First Paintings 1969
You can "next" your way through time... or, alternatively, start with
the retrospective exhibition, the first category.
(Painting statement at bottom page)
© 2008 Tom
Ferguson
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Resume
sketch books
2 prints
Self-portrait Project
Music:
21
albums of
original songs
written &
performed by moi
Music Collaboration
with Kevin Haller
free listening & download
Art Writing
Aesthetic Journal
excerpts
Box
Books, a project for
MOCA/GA
and follow-up editions
Hambidge Box Books
March 2008
Charcoal,
mixed media
installation
City Gallery East
24 drawings, 2006
Computer Drawings
Political Cartoons
(this
is a separate web site)
recent
exhibitions
contact:
tf@thinkspeak.net
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Exhibition, AS-IS (finale)
Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery
a Retrospective 1969 -
2009 6/20 - 8/8, 2009 |
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| Emory Law Library:
Selections from Eyedrum Retrospective, August
thru December 2009 |
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| Last
Paintings . 2000
- 2006 |
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| Found
Object Paintings 1997 - 2000 |
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| Appropriated
Children's Drawings
1988 -
2000 |
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| Single
Object 1987 - 2000 |
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| Full
Length Figures 1986 - 2000 |
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| Heads 1984 -
2000 |
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| One-a-day
Images 1983-4 |
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| Word
Paintings 1980 - 83 |
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| Minimal
1978 - 1980 |
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| Collaborative
1975 - 78 |
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| Linear
Abstraction 1976 - 77 |
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| Musical
Analogy 1974 - 75 |
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| Islamic
Grid 1972 - 74 |
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| Abstraction
1971 - 72 |
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| Imaginary
Subject 1970 - 72 |
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| Cityscape
1969 - 70 |
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| First
Paintings: Interior 1969 |
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| Drawings |
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| Early Drawings 1967-9 |
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| Some
Very Early Paintings |
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| High Museum, Atlanta:
Peter Morrin Essay |
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| Brochure . Retrospective 1984-5 cover images |
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Brochure . Retrospective 1984-5 artist statement
& Peter Morrin Essay |
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| Conceptual
Works |
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| Selected
Press |
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| photos over time of our hero |
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| Exhibition
Installation views |
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| Studio,
views of |
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| Etching
Commission |
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| Murals assisting David Fichter |
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The paintings are organized
over a timeline, categorized according to shifts in interest. This goes
back to 1969 when, after studying 5
semesters at a Milwaukee art school & painting on my own
several months, I had a "break -through", where painting suddenly
made
sense to me. There is further discussion of this in an artist's statement, from a brochure which was part of a 1984-5
seven-museum/Georgia touring retrospective, and an
essay by Peter Morrin, then
curator of
20th Century Art at the High Museum in Atlanta, which
accompanied
my exhibition there in 1985.
I
have labored periodically since art school to define art &
painting.
John Cage's notion that "music is organized sound" translates well I
think into, "painting is organized color." Another satisfying idea for
me is Joseph Campbell's statement, "We don't seek meaning, we
crave depth experience of reality." An encounter with a painting
can be just such an experience.
From
a slightly different angle... Joie de vivre. Gary Zukav talks
about choosing, moment to moment, between joy and fear.
Eckhardt Tolle puts it in other words - escaping egoic mind chatter
into presence, the eternal NOW.
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