A PERVERSELY ORNATE IMAGERY

Thomas Woodruff is a self-proclaimed ‘neo-fabulist’ artist who always works in series on large, complex imagistic projects. The imagery is a cross-culturally hybridized, relentlessly figurative, technically tricky, perversely ornate, and more often than not, dark. Some of the major projects have included All Systems Go (1999), images organized as ‘missions’ incorporating rocket ships, Woodruff’s meditation on the end of the millennium; Freak Parade (2000-2005), a cycle of 32 paintings with marching characters, a celebration of aberrance; and Solar System (The Turning Heads) (2008) motorized paintings on velvet, a group of emblematic two-faced ‘puzzles’...

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