Tom Nussbaum Heads and Tales
Tom Nussbaum Heads and Tales
Tom Nussbaum Heads and Tales
March 31 - May 10, 2014Heads and Tales was an exhibition of selected studio work from the last sixteen years representing the progression in Nussbaum's practice that moves between the representational and the abstract.
His process of self-discovery and mining of images that have personal and psychological meaning are motivations for the leitmotifs developed in his drawings and found in his animations, cut paper, and sculpture works.
His distinctive color palette, and his explorations of form, structure, and pattern unified his work as it progressed from the figurative to the abstract. In a variety of work that is seemingly disparate in style, Nussbaum locates common attributes to embody a narrative framework.
Tom Nussbaum: Heads and Tales Exhibition Catalog
About the Artist
Nussbaum's work has been exhibited at numerous gallery and museums including: the Phyllis Kind Gallery in New York, NY and Chicago, IL, the Delahunty and Barry Whistler galleries in Dallas, TX, the Robischon Gallery in Denver, CO, the Metaphor Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, the Laforet Museum, Tokyo, Japan, the Nicolayson Art Museum Casper, WY, the Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, the Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ, the Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, Alaska, The Contemporary Austin (Laguna Gloria Art Museum), Austin, Texas and the Wright Museum of Art, Beloit, Wisconsin.
His has commissioned works for the Hasbro Toy Company, the MTA Metro North Railroad, New Jersey Transit, the New York City Public Schools, the Princeton Public Library, the Wildwoods NJ Convention Center, the College of New Jersey, the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, Johns Hopkins Hospital Charlotte Bloomberg Children's Center, Baltimore, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY, NY, the St. Lukes Roosevelt Hospital NY, NY, the Montclair Art Museum, and the Albert E. Hinds Memorial Plaza, Princeton, NJ.
Nussbaum is also known for his design objects through his companies: The Acme Robot Company, and Atomic Iron Works. Children's Universe/Rizzoli published his activity book, “My World is Not Flat."
He has been awarded two New Jersey State Individual Artist Fellowships and has been a three time MacDowell Colony Fellow.