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thomas ackermann
Canada
Artist highlights
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
Artwork details
- Medium : Acrylic, Oil on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 80x42in
About this artwork
Mitchell / Mathew in Evolution with each other? I actually met the man (Mitchell) at a NOETICS conference. He appeared somewhat disoriented and possibly even inebriated during his presentation to his audience. I was, to say the least, unimpressed which may have influenced my decision to paint the "evolution" image on his visor.
All of these paintings were executed on paper and mounted on canvas. I employed both acrylics and oils to render the imposing… figure and used an ink-jet transfer technique on the visor, altered or adjusted with watercolor and marker/pens. These were some of my most complex combinations of techniques to make a painting. The results were exhilarating to me, both philosophically to tackle this controversial topic and devising an elegant procedure that imbued the images with an inherent power commensurate with the subjects.
All of these paintings were executed on paper and mounted on canvas. I employed both acrylics and oils to render the imposing… figure and used an ink-jet transfer technique on the visor, altered or adjusted with watercolor and marker/pens. These were some of my most complex combinations of techniques to make a painting. The results were exhilarating to me, both philosophically to tackle this controversial topic and devising an elegant procedure that imbued the images with an inherent power commensurate with the subjects.
thomas ackermann
Canada
Credentials
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
Thomas Ackermann, trained at York University and The New School of Art, in Toronto Canada. He was mentored by some of the best artists in the country who taught at the NS of A. Over a span of 50+ years of painting he has developed a unique method and manner of application of paint to the canvas surface that confronts the viewer with the overwhelming feeling that in the case of Ackermann‘s paintings, "the medium is the message", a brilliant proposition coined by Marshall McCluhan. Unrestricted in his choice of subject matter, his paint surfaces transcend conventional expectations that engage the viewer more directly into his curious, artistic vision. In an interview, Ackermann once remarked, that his deepest motivation to make a painting, comes from his “romance with eternity”, which might explain the fact there is always a sense of the unexpected in his immensely diverse body of work.
