Tom Sanford
Amerikansk kunstner.
(1975-nu)
Den amerikanske kunstner, Tom Sanford, blev født i New York i 1975 og tilbragte sine formative år i Storbritannien.
Han har boet i Harlem siden 1994.
Selvom han generelt betragtes som en eneboer, har han udstillet kunstværker internationalt i løbet af de sidste to årtier.
Tom var repræsenteret af det danske absolutte topgalleri, Galleri Faurschou indtil 2007.
"Stand by 200 minutes"
Tom Sanford
"Stand by 200 Minutes"
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"Stand by 200 minutes"
- By Tom Sanford
"Any of you who follow the daily tedium that comprises my work are very aware that the dam and I spent a grueling spring break week at Disney World.
Disney isn't really my thing, I don't like most of the movies, I don't enjoy amusement park rides, and get enough of people, lines and waiting at home in NYC that I''m not looking to get more on vacation.
But I DO like complaining about stuff and find a sort of perverse meaning in mild suffering.
So Disney wasn't that bad. And my children loved it, like crack heads love crack. It was an emotional rollercoster that took us to our limits. For my part I came to appreciate the lines.
The waiting is the best part.
Besides you're waiting to be on some unpleasent ride or to eat some crappy food, so I came to view the waiting as the least bad part of the experience. Like new-agers like meditation, I relished the cue.
This is my painting of it."- Tom
About Tom Sanford
ANYONE SEEKING EVIDENCE OF THE 21ST CENTURY’S INHERENT DEGENERACY NEED LOOK NO FURTHER THAN THE BRAIN-SQUIRTINGS OF TOM SANFORD.
THE ARTIST FANCIES HIMSELF A CHRONICLER OF MODERN LIFE—TRAINING HIS PERVERTED EYE ON LOCAL NEIGHBORHOOD NOBODIES AS WELL AS POP-CULTURAL ICONS AND OTHER ARTISTS MORE JUSTIFIABLY FAMOUS THAN HE IS, LIKE ALEX KATZ OR NICOLE EISENMANN.
WHAT ARE WE TO MAKE OF THESE GRACELESS GROTESQUES? IF THE ROLE OF THE ARTIST IS TO HOLD A MIRROR UP TO SOCIETY, THEN THIS MIRROR SHOULD MAKE CIVILIZED PEOPLE EVERYWHERE WANT TO PUKE.
SANFORD’S RUBBERY FACED AVATARS MAKE ME APPRECIATE THIS PAST YEAR OF QUARANTINE, WHEN I COULD JUST HIBERNATE IN MY APARTMENT AND FORGET THE HUMAN PAGEANT THAT NEW YORK CITY NORMALLY IS.
MAYBE HE LOVES THIS STUFF—THE THRILL OF ENCOUNTERING ‘A TOTAL CHARACTER’ AT ONE’S LOCAL ‘DIVE BAR,’ SAY—BUT SANFORD’S PAINTINGS MAINLY REMIND ME OF WHY IT’S SAFER TO STAY INDOORS.
-SCOTT INDRISEK, FORMER ART MAGAZINE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, NOW A TOTAL SELL-OUT WORKING FOR AN INSURANCE STARTUP