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Statement I am a largely self-trained artist. Painting makes up the bulk of my practice, but I also do sculptural, mixed media, and performance-installation work. I explore the tension between "public" and "private" art, questions of accessibility, value, and values. I am interested in deconstructing figurative elements into their abstract component parts and finding figurative elements in my abstract work. If possible, I use salvaged material to create work. My practice relates more to my subconscious/emotional response, than my rational/conscious reaction, to the things that drive my work. I want to engage with the viewer's feelings through my work; to resonate with their emotional experience. My pieces are completed in dialog with the viewer, whose experience is an essential component of the work. Bio The first-born child of my parents, I continue to be the oldest of my siblings. Born in Jamaica, Queens, raised in NJ, I have been a college administrator, stay at home dad, bartender, waiter, teacher, carpenter, contractor, designer, artist. I like to take things apart and, to a lesser degree, put them back together. I have a favorite fork. Since early 2013, I have lived and worked in Hudson, New York. I am the artist-in-residence at 46 Green Street Studios, a creative center which has studio spaces for artists and the home of Circle 46 Gallery which I co-own and co-curate. "Tom McGill has dipped a toe in quite a number of soul-chasing pursuits, and so it only seems fitting, with a whole foot and undoubtedly a whole heart submerged in his artistic endeavors, that his expression of self involves a tangle of diverse subjects. By mixing iconography with the mundane, his work often engages the thinking place in your head."
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