Born in Bay City, Michigan, Tom McKinkley was educated in both Europe and the United States. Beginning at the Goddard Collage in Vermont, he continued his education overseas in England at the Falmouth School of Art, the Ravensbourne College of Art, London, and Brighton Polytechnic. Currently, McKinley is living and working in the San Francisco area. Many of Tom McKinley's new paintings depict quiet, still, uninhabited spaces. Most of these spaces belong in the interior of someone's home yet they bare no trace of human contact or individuation. An edge of a billiard table, a corner of a pool, a section of a veranda; these spaces are beautiful and unexpected architectural experiences. A rhythm of geometry, pattern, and repeating forms permeate these quiet settings. Light from peripheral windows breathes some life into these otherwise inanimate spaces. McKinley paints in a meticulously photorealist style which further heightens the surreal nature of these images. (http://www.berggruen.com/artists/tom-mckinley#6) Tom McKinley's paintings present alluring but richly mysterious depictions of classic mid-century and contemporary domestic architecture. People are rare in his paintings, as are objects that suggest their habitation. Instead we are presented with carefully chosen objects of material culture that suggest occupants but reveal little about them except their desire to acquire beauty. Commodities of taste present in his work include furniture of iconic modern design and high-ticket works of contemporary art. He meticulously recreates paintings by artists Roy Lichtenstein, Edward Ruscha, Richard Diebenkorn, Cy Twombly, and the most ubiquitous status symbol, Andy Warhol. McKinley is no less an astute curator of contemporary sculpture in his choices of works by Joel Shapiro, Barry Flanagan, and Alexander Calder. More at http://www.skidmorecontemporaryart.com/tom-mckinley-about.htm undefined

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