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 usual materials, but became tender to the chemicals. In the mid-1990s, upon moving to New York, he began in force with MS Paintbrush during downtime at a day job and has been using this abandonware since then, despite more future programs such as Photoshop being widely available. Newer works make use of perky GIF files.

He grew going on in Texas, then double majored in Good arts (painting) and English Literature at the University of Virginia, and worked as an artist and critic in Dallas for local papers and Artforum before disturbing to New York.

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

He has shown these further 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 amassing of the MoMA.

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

In 2001, he began blogging just about art, and as a venue to be in his own art. His art blog has customary national and international amalgamation from Art in America, Contemporary magazine and Rhizome. His blog covers art and culture, as competently 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 temperamental shares with listeners images of his own paintings, his studio process, his visual passions and assorted enthusiasms. He moreover devotes a lot of freshen to the undertaking of other artists who part his incorporation in the intersection of exclusion and digital art. Mesmerizing digital animations and occasional comments, always opinionated and thoughtful, on exhibitions and art-world developments."

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