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in moments of justice there are always conflicts 2019

A painting portrays our inner worlds and our relationship to the world around us, and to each other, whether they portray representations of things and events seen, narratives about these, or  patterns in the materials and processes that compose them.  As Karl Ove Knausgaard points out, works of art do this through concrete and precise depictions of a person standing, a hand pouring from a pitcher, a landscape of a tree and a hill, or a line of a certain color on a grayish ochre surface.  And these precise events evoke the inexhaustible nature of our relationships to the world around us, to our complex—though sometimes straightforward—desires to see our selves recognized in it.  This is true in works ranging from the prints of Utagawa Hiroshige, to the works in various media of Anselm Kiefer, to Nok suclptures of a group of people or a man sitting resting his chin on his knee, to the patterns of weavings from Ghana, the material movement and weight of El Anatsui’s sculptures, the specific narratives implied and shown in the images of Lorna Simpson, Australian Aboriginal patterns that trace the connections and movements of people across their lands, and to the choreographed locations of color and bodily contact to the physical world in the works of artists like Donna Huanca, John Walker, or Chitra Ganesh.  The list expansively goes on.  It includes expressions of tragedy, conflict, and injustice, as well exuberance and inexhaustible translations of our shared experiences.


(Further reference: Knausgaard, "Inexhaustible Precision:" https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/inexhaustible-precision/

Recent and Related Works

more familiar than not, being divided  2022  24" x 20"

    Earlier Works

    mapping your concerns  2007  30" x  34"

      An artist, writer, and lecturer based in Philadelphia, Tom Csaszar has been on the graduate faculties of the University of the Arts and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts during the last twenty years.  He has written numerous pieces over the last thirty years for The Journal of Art, Artnews, Art in America, American Crafts, The New Art Examiner, Sculpture, Title Magazine.com, artcritical.com and various gallery catalogues. His paintings have been shown regionally and locally for over thirty-five years. A Contributing Editor of The New Art Examiner from 1993 - 2001, he is a member of the International Association of Art Critics, and the College Art Association. He has developed and taught seminars in graduate programs since 2000.

      selected writings available on the internet

      “The Heroism of the Crowd: Flânerie at the Barnes Foundation” Artcritical Magazine, May 11 2017

       https://artcritical.com/2017/05/11/tom-csaszar-on-person-of-the-crowd/

      "Fazal Sheikh at the Slough Foundation" Title Magazine, May 26, 2016

      http://www.title-magazine.com/2016/05/fazal-sheikh/

      "Terry Adkins at the Venice Biennale 2015" Title Magazine, November 6, 2015

      http://www.title-magazine.com/2015/11/smoke-signals-and-muffled-drums-terry-adkins-at-the-venice-biennale-2015/

      “Plugging In and Moving On: Okwui Enwezor’s All the World’s Futures” Artcritical Magazine, September 23, 2015 https://artcritical.com/2015/09/23/tom-csaszar-on-the-venice-biennale/

      “Bright Matter: Shinique Smith in Boston” Artcritical Magazine, April 28, 2015 

      https://artcritical.com/2015/04/28/tom-csaszar-on-shinique-smith/

       “Visual Specialties: Three Shows, Three Parts of the Culture” Title Magazine July 8 2014

       http://www.title-magazine.com/2014/07/visual-specialties-three-shows-three-parts-of-the-culture/  

      “Social Structures and Shared Autobiographies: A Conversation with Do-Ho Suh” Sculpture, December, 2005

       http://images.exhibit-e.com/www_lehmannmaupin_com/09cef87c.pdf  

      other selected writings by Tom Csaszar

      Material Personae-Lynda Benglis 2008 (pdf)Download
      On the Drawings and Sculpture of John Atkin 2003 (pdf)Download
      The Sculpture of Winifred Lutz-Perception's Nature 1998 (pdf)Download

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      Selected Works from Recent and Earlier Works

      more familiar than not, being divided  2022  24" x 20"

      around the corner - subjects in nature  2022  20" x 24"

      four movements  2021  18" x 15"

      each door its own sky  2020  30" x  34"

      as the light traversed the wall  2018  32" x  36"

      near the stairs at the cro-magnon  2017  30" x  34"

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