RESIDENT ARTIST :: Tom Walther
ARTIST STATEMENT
Tom Walther
"I am a maker of images filled with wunderlust in an invented world with my pictures as the means of transportation. The images represent 'real' places with absurd pairings of subject and chronologies. In the work, I try to illicit in the viewer's mind the contradictions of what appears in the picture and what happens in reality. I mean to distill the imagery and color of the perceptible realities into the work so as to isolate it into content."
BIOGRAPHY:
Thom Walther was born in Muncie, Indiania in 1978. In subsequent years, his familyh moved from Muncie to Dayton, Ohia and Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Starting painting in earnest in high school, Walther soon after attended Denison University, earning a BFA in 2000, and then went on to the University of Pennsylvanie for an MFA in 2002. While at Penn, he studied with John Moore, Terry Adkins, Al Leslie and Robert Slutzky.
Currently, Tom Walther lives and works in Chicago, Illinois, where he also teaches for Wright College.
For information about Tom Walther's work, please call REpose Gallery: