“When I was a kid, I went to a James Turrell show. … I remember my friends and I were laughing at this black rectangle on the wall. … I went over to touch the thing. … And my hand went into limitless space. … For me it was more interesting that what you see isn’t necessarily there. I was really interested in art asking you to pay attention." (Fred Tomaselli) (http://www.irequireart.com/artists/fred_tomaselli/eye-734.html) Fred Tomaselli (born in Santa Monica, California, in 1956); American artist. Best known for his highly detailed paintings on wood panels, combining an array of unorthodox materials suspended in a thick layer of clear, epoxy resin. Tomaselli's paintings include medicinal herbs, prescription pills and hallucinogenic plants alongside images cut from books and magazines: flowers, birds, butterflies, arms, legs and noses, which are combined into dazzling patterns that spread over the surface of the painting like a beautiful virus or growth. He uses an explosion of color and combines it with a basis in art history. His style usually involves collage, painting, and/or glazing. He seals the collages in resin after gluing them down and going over them with different varnishes. “I want people to get lost in the work. I want to seduce people into it and I want people to escape inside the world of the work. In that way the work is pre-Modernist. I throw all of my obsessions and loves into the work, and I try not to be too embarrassed about any of it. I love nature, I love gardening, I love watching birds, and all of that gets into the work. I just try to be true to who I am and make the work I want to see. I don’t have a radical agenda. ” Tomaselli sees his paintings and their compendium of data as windows into a surreal, hallucinatory universe. “It is my ultimate aim”, he says, “to seduce and transport the viewer in to space of these pictures while simultaneously revealing the mechanics of the... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Tomaselli) undefined

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