Artist Talk – Tom Torluemke: Live! On Paper, 1987 – 2024
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Sunday, June 29th, from 2PM - 3PM
On view through Sunday, July 27th
Join Artist Tom Torluemke in the Exhibit Hall, 4th fl., as he discusses his retrospective exhibition in his moving and humorous storytelling style.
Tom Torluemke’s (b. Chicago, 1959) name is familiar to art lovers in Chicagoland thanks mainly to his detailed acrylic paintings, in which he observes and memorializes society’s ills with the doting attention of a diehard humanist. Torluemke has been considerably more prolific in painting works on paper, a primarily unexplored part of his oeuvre: Tom Torluemke: Live! On Paper, 1987 – 2024, aspires to reframe the conversation around his art, representing almost forty years of studio activity that includes works about nature, fantasy, autobiography, abstraction, social strife, identity, and a full spectrum of emotion from shame to ecstasy, showcasing Torluemke’s unique artistry through his freewheeling imagination and boundless technical chops in capturing our broad collective experience of being fully aware, conscious citizens living in this place at this peculiar moment in history. – Dan Cameron, Curator
A monograph and exhibition catalog for Tom Torluemke: Live! On Paper has been published by SKIRA Editore, Milan, and edited by Dan Cameron, with essays by Dan Cameron, Jeff Huebner, Robin Dluzen, Alan Pocaro, and David Detmer. Available for sale in the Buddy Store (1st fl.) at the Cultural Center.
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