Fred Tomaselli

FRED TOMASELLI is an artist best known for his highly-detailed works combining abstract patterns, human figures, and natural forms in a range of unorthodox materials--such as medicinal herbs, prescription drugs, hallucinogenic plants, and cuttings from printed material. His meticulous compositions swirl across the picture plane like psychedelic visions or Medieval tapestry patterns. Tomaselli sees his works as surreal and hallucinatory universes, in which viewers are apt to lose themselves to a...See more

FRED TOMASELLI is an artist best known for his highly-detailed works combining abstract patterns, human figures, and natural forms in a range of unorthodox materials--such as medicinal herbs, prescription drugs, hallucinogenic plants, and cuttings from printed material. His meticulous compositions swirl across the picture plane like psychedelic visions or Medieval tapestry patterns. Tomaselli sees his works as surreal and hallucinatory universes, in which viewers are apt to lose themselves to a vortex of imagery and ornament. He is particularly interested in the notion of utopia and its various iterations in creative movements, from the Transcendentalists to the Beatniks, describing his work as a sort of "search for transcendence." See less