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TOM BREAK

Artist and Writer

Exhibition Archive

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RENAISSANCES

Based on Michelangelo's entrance to the Laurentian Library, the works in this site-specific installation use architectural forms to explore the tension between the idea of a 're-birth' of classical culture and the emergence of a new dark age.

 

Harrison Center for the Arts, Indianapolis, IN

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GRADATIONS

A collection of small works exploring geometric constructions, arithmetic sequences, and human proportions. Editions of hand-made multiples are available through the artist.

 

3Mass Gallery, Indianapolis, IN

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THE OCEAN IS WHAT I MEANT BY

These works lift a line from Ben Lerner's Mean Free Path, cutting the words "The ocean is what I meant by" over and over again into black tulle, which is then layered and mounted in handmade wood frames.

 

Leavitt Gallery, Iowa City, IA

 

Work included in:

References, Tambaran Gallery, NYC

Party Lines, New York Studio Gallery, NYC

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Art and the Restoration of Value

A four-part essay for Genealogies of Modernity about art and value.

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Modern Art and Truth

A three-part essay in Genealogies of Modernity about modernist painting and the desire for a true art.

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What Happened When the Lights Went Out

An essay for Dappled Things about electricity, light, and the wake of technological failure.

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Susan Rothenberg's Search for the Real

An essay for The New Criterion in memoriam of Susan Rothenberg and her enormous legacy for painting.

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Notes on the Vocation of Being a Teacher

An essay for the Circe Institute about an oft-overlooked difficulty borne by the teachers of the world.

MEDITATIONS

This exhibition at Sterling College in Kansas combined Tom's most recent tulle multiples (Cross, Night, and Dove) with his Stations of the Cross.

 

Work also included in:

Together With, The Bubbler, Madison, WI

and RMCAD, Denver, CO

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