Thomas Eggerer

Faculty, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts

Academic Program Affiliation(s): MFA Painting

Biography: Painting. Thomas Eggerer's new paintings feature figures in ambivalent spaces that are both expansive and limiting. The architectural elements in these works such as a fence in "Fence Romance" or the modernist frame in "Friday's Child" offer shelter and definition, and are nonetheless confining.

A feeling of exposure and uncertainty is enhanced by the placement of the figures on slanted angles ("Downward") and even further by the orchestration of glances: The viewers' glances but also a regime of glances within the paintings themselves.

The ambivalence of Eggerer's spatial constructions provides a context for a time frame - holding and releasing, breathing in and out, before and after.

Eggerer's work process often starts with a photography lifted from any type off mass media context: magazines, books, film stills, etc.. Researching material, collecting and working with an "archive" are important elements of his work process .

Eggerers' shows often consist of a variety of different media: drawings, small and large-scale collages, non-representational paintings and figurative paintings are grouped together in multifocal installations.

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Department: Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts