Thomas Woodruff

Artist's Statement

Thomas Woodruff is a self-proclaimed “neo-fabulist” artist who always works in series on large, complex imagistic projects. Hatched from personal experiences, the projects are often apotropaic and elegiac in nature, dealing with issues raised by the AIDS epidemic, aspects of maintaining wellness, and celebrating the outsider in all of us. The imagery is a cross-culturally hybridized, relentlessly figurative, technically tricky, perversely ornate, and more often than not – dark.

Artist's Bio

Thomas Woodruff is the Chairman of the Illustration and Cartooning Departments at the School of Visual Arts in New York, New York. He is represented by P P O W, New York, New York.

Selected Exhibitions: 2010 – Freak Parade, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 2009 – Freak Parade, Selby Gallery, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida. 2008 – Solar System (The Turning Heads), P P O W, New York, New York; Freak Parade, Herron School of Art and Design, IUPUI, Indianapolis, Indiana. 2007 – Freak Parade, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, California. 2006 – High Drama: Eugene Berman and the Legacy of the Melancholic Sublime, Long Beach Museum, Long Beach, California.