Figure of Speech: Tom Stanley
Jan - Feb, 2003 | Hussey gallery »
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About
Tom Stanley, is an artist and director of Winthrop University Galleries, in Rock Hill, South Carolina. In 1982 Stanley received a MA in Applied Art History and a MFA in Painting from the University of South Carolina. As a curator, Stanley has been particularly focused on self-taught or outsider artists. He has collaborated with The Collection de l’Art Brut in Lausanne, Switzerland on a number of projects. According to Stanley these associations have, “through example, taught me that art can be made without fear and by using what one knows best.” He employs a sgraffito technique of scratching images into the paint, as well as, acrylic washes. Stanley works on paper with an emphasis on surface quality. There is a duality at play in these surfaces, which are executed with both deliberate and quite accidental brush strokes within the same work. Stanley’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States and Europe.
