Solo Exhibition: Seeing The Forest For The Trees
Tom Colcord
Dates: September 4 - 25, 2021
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 4 | 11 AM - 7 PM
Glass Rice is proud to present Seeing The Forest For The Trees, San Francisco-based artist Tom Colcord’s sophomore solo exhibition with the gallery. In this new body of work, Colcord continues to explore the subjectivity and fluidity of our perceptions through two distinct styles; maximalist plein air paintings and drawings, coupled with dream-like painting collages of interiors and exteriors collapsing and synthesizing into one another.
In the artist’s maximalist plein air approach, urban backyards overgrown with lush greenery take center stage. At first glance, these familiar scenes appear as though they are traditional conceptions of reality, however, as the viewer’s gaze becomes lost in the immense detail and density, the chaos and mystery hidden in our observable reality step forward. Colcord draws attention to the complexities of our natural world and the microcosmic relationships that elude the naked eye through this hyper-detailed approach.
In the paintings that embrace twilight, Colcord melds multiple realities and realms; traveling between dimensions that span our experience of time. In these concentrated yet liminal spaces, the familiar and the bizarre coalesce into surreal realities through abstraction and hyper-realist renderings. “In these paintings, I aim to create a dream-like reality, recalling the fluidity of perception and memory as our consciousness travels between the worlds of the waking present, the subconscious, and the past.”
By working in these two styles, the artist constructs multi-dimensional spaces rooted in a continually changing psyche in an unconscious space. The works in Seeing The Forest For The Trees are ruminations on what we can know within the limits of our perceptions, as well as speculations on what may lie beyond. As the artist sifts through the chaos and complexities of our society, and navigates through his internal anxiety, painting in such a dense manner allows Colcord to process the confusion and provide a vehicle for his audience to journey along with him.
Tom Colcord
Dates: September 4 - 25, 2021
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 4 | 11 AM - 7 PM
Glass Rice is proud to present Seeing The Forest For The Trees, San Francisco-based artist Tom Colcord’s sophomore solo exhibition with the gallery. In this new body of work, Colcord continues to explore the subjectivity and fluidity of our perceptions through two distinct styles; maximalist plein air paintings and drawings, coupled with dream-like painting collages of interiors and exteriors collapsing and synthesizing into one another.
In the artist’s maximalist plein air approach, urban backyards overgrown with lush greenery take center stage. At first glance, these familiar scenes appear as though they are traditional conceptions of reality, however, as the viewer’s gaze becomes lost in the immense detail and density, the chaos and mystery hidden in our observable reality step forward. Colcord draws attention to the complexities of our natural world and the microcosmic relationships that elude the naked eye through this hyper-detailed approach.
In the paintings that embrace twilight, Colcord melds multiple realities and realms; traveling between dimensions that span our experience of time. In these concentrated yet liminal spaces, the familiar and the bizarre coalesce into surreal realities through abstraction and hyper-realist renderings. “In these paintings, I aim to create a dream-like reality, recalling the fluidity of perception and memory as our consciousness travels between the worlds of the waking present, the subconscious, and the past.”
By working in these two styles, the artist constructs multi-dimensional spaces rooted in a continually changing psyche in an unconscious space. The works in Seeing The Forest For The Trees are ruminations on what we can know within the limits of our perceptions, as well as speculations on what may lie beyond. As the artist sifts through the chaos and complexities of our society, and navigates through his internal anxiety, painting in such a dense manner allows Colcord to process the confusion and provide a vehicle for his audience to journey along with him.
