Current Art Exhibit


Court Shades by Tom Ferguson

Tom Ferguson - Personal Statement


The selection of paintings for this exhibition came from a larger survey of my work, AS-IS (finale) a Retrospective 1969-2009 at Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery, Atlanta this summer.

The exhibit was a retrospective and a finale, a celebration and sharing of work produced over 40 years.  Many of the 178 plus paintings in that show had not been exhibited in Atlanta, over 60 having been produced since 2000.  This show covers some of the same ground.

The selections here are from various foci: where I used images from one-a-day drawing books kept 1969-74 as subject for paintings ten years later, 1983-4: Heads from 1985-7, Single Objects 1987 into the 90s and work on Found Objects from mid-nineties to the present, appropriating imagery from my daughter’s sketchbooks and from my own stacks of drawings in notebooks, journals, on napkins, scraps of paper, backs of envelopes, etc.

My resume lists exhibitions of paintings at the High Museum, The Contemporary (Nexus), Fay Gold Gallery, Sandler Hudson Gallery and many other venues in the city, the Southeast and abroad.  An early retrospective toured 7 Georgia Museums in 1984-5.

In 1967, I made a career choice, setting aside ambitions in commercial art and throwing my lot with the fine arts.  The choice was intuitive.  I could not articulate what it was that drew me, but as I have returned again and again to the question I finally, gradually, have realized that what Art provides is an evolving glimpse and a means to cultivating the most profound of human experience, the mystery and depth of simple being.

For a survey & discussion of my visual art, see:  www.thinkspeak.net.

 

Tom Ferguson - List of Works - 2nd Floor


Title
Title
1. Court Shades
(9 canvases), 2006
$4,000
2. Heads
(left to right)
$1,500 each
3. Senor Goya
1985
$1,500		 4. Snow Plow Operator
1986
$1,500
5. Mid-Yawn Sneeze
1985
$1,500		 6. Chair Man
1985
$1,500
7. Hedgeclipper
1985
$1,500		 8. Underwhelmed
1986
$1,500
9. Paul Cezanne
1985
$1,500
 10. Divisor
1986
$1,500
11. Dark Lock
1988
$1,500		 12. Devil Driver
1986
$1,500
13. Dairy Atoms
1987
$1,500		 14. Throwaway World
1987
$1,500
15. Connection
1987
$1,500		 16. One More Cup
1987
$1,500
17. Summit (across from copy machine)
$1,400		 18. Pencil Almighty (above fountain)
1991
$700
19. Beach Seen Business
2004
$1,800		 20. Jamais Vu (across from fountain)
1984
$1,500
21. Before Pim (across from fountain)
1984
$1,500		 22. Redhead (hallway)
2004
$900
23. Ancestor (hallway)
2004
$1,000		  



Tom Ferguson - List of Works - 3rd Floor


Title
Title
1. Student Work (above fountain)
1993
$600
2. The First Cynic in California
1983
$1,500
3. One Up
1983
$1,500		 4. Three More Cups (kid cups) (hallway)
1991
$1,200
5. Earth & Air (hallway)
1984
$1,500		 6. Hallow's Eve (hallway)
1984
$1,500



Tom Ferguson - List of Works - 4th Floor


Title
Title
1. Picture Window (across from elevators, left to right)
2002
$1,600
2. Young Portal
2002
$1,200
3. P.M.
2000
$500		 4. A.M.
2000
$400
5. Applauding the Prodigal Son
2004
$1,500		 6. Thither They Go
2002
$1,500
7. Companions (around corner from above group to left)
2004
$800		 8. Potential Pot-Roast (above fountain)
1990
$1,200
9. Nug Shot (to right of fountain)
2005
$1,200
 10. Horse Show (hallway)
1992
$700
11. Aix en Provence (hallway)
2003
$1,200		 12. Towers Twin (hallway)
2004
$500
13. Sibling in the Mirror (hallway)
2004
$500		 14. Moksha (column north)
2004
$400
15. Going Postal (column north)
2002
$300		 16. Warbucks-By-Law (column east)
$600
17. Brevity LOL (column south)
1997
$400 		18. St. Ann (column west)
1989
$600
19. St. Jim (south wall, keft to right)
1989
$500		 20. Ash Can School
1998
$500
21. This Flat Place
1989
$600		 22. See Me, Sing Me (between windows, left to right)
2003
$1,200
23. Ibiza intrigue
2004
$1,200		 24. Beach Seen (to right of windows)
2004
$1,000



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