Tom McGlynn
Tom McGlynn is an artist, writer, and independent curator.
McGlynn works primarily in painting, creating abstract geometric compositions from carefully balanced and colorful rectangles. To arrive at his compositions, McGlynn morphs commercial signage into minimalist, abstract arrangements of color. For McGlynn, this process is less about the logic of reducing commercial signs to their constituent simplified forms, but of coming to these forms lodge themselves in a shared consciousness and memory. McGlynn explores subconscious and its effect as primary gestalt in form and color, positing that commercial and pop consciousness is not only determined by the media we’re presented with. In his work, McGlynn imagines Minimalism as what critic Peter Plagens termed “imageless pop,” not so much a non-referential reduction of form and content, simply one removed of syntactical signifiers.
New York, NY
Born 1958, New Jersey, US
1996 MFA Hunter College, New York, NY
1980 BFA Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ
www.tommcglynnart.com