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Tom LaDuke’s paintings are messy, exuberant, indulgent affairs, cramming multiple techniques and representational modes onto each canvas.
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Read MoreA common misconception is that only humans use tools. Actually, several other species--apes, sea otters, and various birds, among them--employ
Read MoreA common misconception is that only humans use tools. Actually, several other species--apes, sea otters, and various birds, among them--employ
Read MoreYou'd be hard pressed to find a body of work more painstaking in its construction than that of Tom LaDuke. His last solo show, at Angles Gallery
Read MoreAt first glance the paintings of Tom LaDuke may look like simple abstractions but as you walk closer you start to see a second and then a third image
Read MoreIt is obvious from the onset of Tom LaDuke's recent exhibition that one is in the presence of the repressed. The appearance of the repressed
Read MoreStreet photography ruffled the waters of that medium in the 1960s by offering a way of making pictures that seemed to reject the traditional ground
Read MoreWhile walking through the university district in Munich during mid-December, I passed by a small pigment store on Barer Strasse. It looked unusual
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Tom LaDuke (b. Holyoke, Massachusetts) earned his BFA from California State University, Fullerton (1991) and his MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois (1994). Selected solo exhibitions include Private Property, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California (2001); terrane, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California (2002); and Pattern Seeking Primate, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California (2004). Selected group exhibitions include Room Service, The Living Room: Special Projects in Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, California (1999); Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California (2000); New In Town, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon (2002); 2002 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California (catalogue) (2002); and New Works on Paper, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California (2005). His works are included in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach.
LaDuke lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
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