Tom NozkowskiFollow This Artist
Born: 1944
Hometown: Teaneck, NJ
Lives and Works: New York, NY
Education:
B.F.A., The Cooper Union, New York, NY, 1967
Tom Nozkowski Bio
About The Artist
Though his small, brightly colored oil paintings are highly abstract, Thomas Nozkowski insists that they are all rooted in the real world: "I think you can actually make a picture out of anything, a state of mind, an idea, anything." A student of the Abstract Expressionists, Nozkowski does not begin a painting with a final image in mind, but creates his works intuitively, noting that he knows a painting is finished when he feels an "energized space" in the canvas. Refusing to discard or abandon a painting once he has started it, Nozkowski's works often take years to complete in spite of their small size, with the artist reworking the same canvas multiple times.
In addition to a 2009 retrospective of his work at the National Gallery of Canada, Nozkowski has been the subject of over 70 solo shows, at venues including the Corcoran Gallery of Art (1997), the Ludwig Museum in Koblenz, Germany (2007), and the Fisher Landau Center (2008).
Tom Nozkowski Permanent Collections
Select Permanent Collections
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
The Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, NY
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Tom Nozkowski Art
Works by the Artist
