LILIANE TOMASKO
b. 1967, SwitzerlandLiliane Tomasko’s abstract paintings employ a distinctive, bold lyricism, with an equally unabashed sense of colour. The artist often begins with a study of the personal effects of everyday domesticity such as bedding or clothing to create work that suggests a gateway into the realms of sleep and dreaming; delving into the gulf between what we understand as the ‘conscious’ and ‘subconscious.’ This new series of paintings display an increasing vitality and assertiveness, articulating an abstraction that is rooted in the physical realm but attempting a departure from it. Intense colour, subtle tone, shadows and painterly gesture are woven together in such a way that space comes in and out of focus, suspending one’s perception of them and emulating the clarity or lack thereof of dreams and memories
Recent solo exhibitions include: dark goes lightly, Chateau la Costa, France, (21 October–18 December 2019); The Red Thread, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, (2019); Caja de sueños, Museo MATE, Lima (2018); 12 nights x dreams, Rockland Center for the Arts, New York State (2018); Kunstwerk, (two-person exhibition with Sean Scully), Sammlung Klein, Germany (2017); Sean Scully + Liliane Tomasko, Fundación Bancaja, Valencia (2016); Mother-Matrix-Matter, Lowe Art Museum, Miami (2015); In Visible World, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ, USA (2015) and dusk at dawn, Kunsthalle Rostock, Germany (2015). Recent group exhibitions include: Abstract Painting Now! Kunsthalle Krems, Austria, (2017); Park, Holly’s Gallery, Guangzhou, China (co-presented by Kerlin Gallery), (2017); Couleurs Contemporaines, Centre D’Art de Chateauvert, France, (2014) and Hôtel des Arts, Centre Méditerranéen D’Art, Toulon, France, (2009).
Tomasko’s work is represented in the collections of The Albertina, Vienna, AU; Bank Vontobel AG, Zurich, CH; Hilti Art Foundation, Schaan, LI; Hôtel des Arts, Centre Méditerranéen D’Art, Toulon, FR; Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, IE; IVAM-Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, ES; K20 K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, DE; Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, CH; Lowe Art Museum, Miami, US; Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich, DE; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, DE; Sammlung Klein, Eberdingen-Nussdorf, DE; Try-Me Collection, Richmond, Virginia, US; VMFA Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, US.
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