The Natural Thing to Do; His Artwork has Dabbled with Drugs, but Fred Tomaselli the Artist Is Also a Clean-Loving Dad and Naturalist, Discovers Moira Jeffrey
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Fred Tomaselli and I are swopping birdwatching stories. I'm telling him about the sad fate of an American robin, blown off course to the UK and quickly snaffled by a sparrowhawk. He's telling me about the peregrine hounded out of his Brooklyn garden recently by a band of defiant sparrows.
You may have heard about Fred Tomaselli, the New York-based artist, whose exhibition, Monsters of Paradise, will open at the Fruitmarket Gallery tomorrow. You're most likely to picture him as a former California skate punk, whose youthful experimentation with psychedelics led him to produce beautiful hybrid paintings that include over-the-counter pharmaceuticals, and a few more organic compounds trapped beneath their complex resin surfaces.See the full content of this document
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The Natural Thing to Do; His Artwork has Dabbled with Drugs, but Fred Tomaselli the Artist Is Also a Clean-Loving Dad and Naturalist, Discovers Moira Jeffrey
But, as I find out when we meet, Tomaselli, at 48 an internationally-renowned artist, is as much the contemporary version of an eccentric Victorian naturalist, an avid collector, and clean- living dad as he is a pro...
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