Thom O'Connor
The highly worked prints by Thom O’Connor have long defined his role as one of the most significant artists/printmakers of the 20th Century. Graduated from Cranbrook and considered a leader among the New Breed of Printmakers bringing fresh creative energies to the old process of pulling impressions from stone, metal and wood, O’Connor was awarded the responsibility for developing the State University of New York’s first art department/degree program within the thriving Edward Stone-designed Albany Campus. The success of O’Connor’s program was widely recognized and led to National and International guest professorships, as well as, multiple fellowships with Tamarind in the early 60’s. Throughout O’Connor’s career, his early adoption of environmentally responsible methods has inspired an enduring pursuit of new print-making techniques.
Thom O’Connor is an internationally exhibited, critically acclaimed, and widely collected artist. His work, represented in over 35 museum collections, has been broadly viewed via single-artist and group exhibitions throughout the United States, Abu Dhabi, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bosnia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Denmark, England, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, Wales and Yugoslavia.
Over the course of six decades, O’Connor’s dialogue has yielded a form of complex minimalism grounded in a response to nature, life’s mysteries, even the commonplace. Working in lithography, polymer gravure, intaglio, digital, or collage, Thom O’Connor exhibits an unparalleled ability to awaken the latent nature of the medium and release its soul.
A pivotal figure of the Fine Art Print movement, Thom O'Connor is recongized worldwide.
From large, luscious prints of other-worldly dimension
to small prints quietly transmuting the prose of life into
poetry, these richly visual, highly controlled works from
master printmaker Thom O'Connor embody the notion
of perfection.