Tom Trosch

THOMAS TROSCH

The Charming Mr. Tantalus

May 10, 2003 through June 14, 2003

Fredericks Freiser Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by THOMAS TROSCH. The artist has shown widely in the United States, and was recently included in “LA Post Cool” curated by Michael Duncan at the San Jose Museum of Art. He will be exhibiting a project at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo this fall. This will be Mr. Trosch’s ninth one person exhibition.

Thomas Trosch’s oil paintings of aristocratic ladies with their art collections are luscious and theatrical. With a conspicuous hand-made labor, he mixes purses, dresses, lamps, coffee tables, sculptures, and abstract paintings into storybook Arcadias. Scrapes, scumbles and thick impastos are applied in a dizzying fashion that suggests multiple levels of reading.  There is a humor in the mixture of chance and control; in the way everything always has the good manner to dissolve into a brilliant passage of painterly excess. Yet, like in the work of other clunky sophisticates such as Malcolm Morley or Karen Kilimnik, there is also a notion of childhood experience and dreams coupled with adult desire and anxiety.