Tom Moody (artist)

Tom Moody is a visual artist, critic and blogger based in New York City. He began his career as a painter, using acknowledged materials, but became sensitive to the chemicals. In the mid-1990s, upon upsetting to New York, he began committed with MS Paintbrush during downtime at a day job and has been using this abandonware before then, despite more well along programs such as Photoshop bodily widely available. Newer works make use of vibrant GIF files.

He grew up in Texas, then double majored in fine arts (painting) and English Literature at the University of Virginia, and worked as an performer and critic in Dallas for local papers and Artforum before upsetting to New York.

In complement to archaic software, his artworks combine expected and digital media and techniques, combining art and craft. The New York Times has reviewed his artworks, calling them "amusing, also, for the pretension they fuse tall modern associations, like Cubism or Greenbergian all-overness, with kitsch dealings of Op Art and cheap office technology."

He has shown these supplementary media artworks at the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the New Museum; Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn; the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut; the University at Buffalo, New York; the Drawing Center, New York; Harbourfront Centre, Toronto Canada; Homeroom, Munich, Germany; among others. One of his artiste books is in the hoard of the MoMA.

His art criticism has been published by Art Papers, Artforum, Sculpture Magazine and New Art Examiner.

In 2001, he began blogging nearly art, and as a venue to feint his own art. His art blog has conventional national and international raptness from Art in America, Contemporary magazine and Rhizome. His blog covers art and culture, as well as serves as a forum for publishing his own digital works. Art in America said, of his blog, "the site of New York painter Tom short-tempered shares with listeners images of his own paintings, his studio process, his visual passions and assorted enthusiasms. He in addition to devotes a lot of aerate to the statute of extra artists who allowance his interest in the intersection of exclusion and digital art. Mesmerizing digital animations and occasional comments, always opinionated and thoughtful, on exhibitions and art-world developments."