Wire Cutters
Acrylic on Canvas, 60" x 60"
Born in Los Angeles in 1952, Tom Christopher received his B.F.A. from the Art Center College, Pasadena, California. He moved to New York City in 1981 and worked for CBS-TV as a courtroom sketch artist. He has also done illustrations for the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. Christopher returned to California in 1993, but he maintains a studio in New York. His work is exhibited regularly at galleries in New York and California. Among his commissions have been works for Absolut Vodka and for Long Island City, New York. Christopher's work was influenced by the Bay Area figurative painters of the late 1950s and early 1960s. His brushstrokes are loose and gestural, and he uses intense, primary colors, creating canvases that are full of energy and motion. He has painted a series focusing on tools and more recently has begun a series of New York cityscapes.
*Excerpted from Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection, published by Harry N. Abrams Inc.