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 Tom Bovo is a second generation Brooklyn native. He studied painting and printmaking at Columbia University under noted artists such as printmakers Andre Racz and Robert Blackburn, as well as painters David Lund and Leon Goldin. Tom has been working almost exclusively in photography since 1985, doing commercial photography for 10 years. He now concentrates on his own work.
Although heavily influeneced by abstract expressionist painters, his photography influences are Eadweard Muybridge, Andre Kertesz, Diane Arbus.
Visit his website at www.tombovo.com
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WORK
Coming Soon
"Naked Measures" coming this fall, Openings at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle, New York, NY
EXHIBITIONS
100 Works on Paper Benefit Exhibit, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY, 2010
The March Exhibit, the Gallery of the Museum of Computer Art (MOCA), Brooklyn, NY, 2010.
The 10th Annual Donnie Award Exhibit, the Gallery of the Museum of Computer Art (MOCA), Brooklyn, NY, 2010.
The Small Works Show at 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, December 3, 2009 through January 10, 2010.
SNAP TO GRID at Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (lacda), Los Angeles, CA, November 12 through December 5, 2009.
The 11th Annual Painting, Drawing, Photography & Print Exhibition, Upstream People Gallery, Omaha, NE, 2009
"God doesn't like ugly," Openings at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle, New York, NY, 2009
First Anniversity Exhibit, the Gallery of the Museum of Computer Art (MOCA), Brooklyn, NY, 2009
Spring Festival, the Gallery of the Museum of Computer Art (MOCA), Brooklyn, NY, 2009
11th Annual Contemporary Art International Exhibition, Upstream People Gallery, Omaha, NE 2009
The 6th Annual Exhibition of the Surrealist, Visionary and Fantastic, Caladan Gallery, Cambridge, MA 2009
La Grande Donnie 2009, the Gallery of the Museum of Computer Art (MOCA), Brooklyn, NY, 2009
Optical, The Raandesk Gallery Photo Annual, 2009
On a Theme of December, the Gallery of the Museum of Computer Art (MOCA), Brooklyn, NY, 2008
Double Exposure, the Gallery of the Museum of Computer Art (MOCA), Brooklyn, NY, 2008
ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
Coumbia University Spectator article, December, 2009
Village Voice, Voice Choice for "God doesn't like ugly", September 30-October 6, 2009
ArtInBrooklyn.com, November 2008.
MEMBERSHIPS
Brooklyn Arts Council
Art Battery Group
Brooklyn Art Project
EDUCATION
Columbia University, BA, Visual Art and Perceptual Psychology, 1981 Association of Graphic Communications, New York, NY, 1996
STATEMENT
My artistic practice is engaged with exploiting ambiguities of visual experience—there is an uncomfortable zone between what we see and what we perceive that creates a momentary surprise that is fun. My aim is to engage the viewer in this place where there are some ideas that intersect with the individual's consciousness. The work draws from many different visual elements such as the the structural, the systematic, the technological, the biological, the fabricated, and the decorative. For me, it is a meditation on the complexity of an increasingly dense environment.
I work primarily here in New York City and find the people, places, and objects of the city are the building blocks I am using. Many of the photographs reflect an interest in certain types of actors and their visual performances: people as reflected in and by the architecture of the urban landscape, bits and pieces of patterns and textual material, and how it all expresses itself visually.
