Selected Editions: 1991-2005 presents prints and other editions by Fred Tomaselli, who pursues the psychedelic in his patterns and repetition, Eastern-like visions that at one time might be considered hallucinatory.
Tomaselli has been exhibiting widely since attending California Institute of the Arts in the early 1980s. He now works in Brooklyn, with shows in 2009 lined up at White Cube in London and the Aspen Art Museum.
His works are coy in their combination of recreational and pharmaceutical drug references and neo-mystical arrays of human body parts. At Solway, we are treated to two samples of his typical collage-and-resin panels from the artist’s collection as access points to his various print-media explorations. Of all the work, “Phrase Book (web)” is a beautiful curiosity — a limited-edition book with sleeve onto which a tiny crowd of images blasts out from a center axis point.
View this exhibit Monday-Saturday through April 18 at the Carl Solway Gallery. Read more about they gallery’s current exhibits here.
This article appears in Jan 28 – Feb 3, 2009.