www.gillingart.com
Paintings Drawings Sculpture
2016 - 2023
Rejuvenated Blossom
1989 ... 1/2023
Acrylic on wood panel
20"w x 24"h
$2,500
Mad Rush
1/2023
Acrylic on wood panel
48"w x 24"h
$3,500
[Yes, it is THAT dark]
Architectural Indigestion
8/2022
Acrylic on wood panel
19" x 12"
$2,500
Opposing Genders
7/2022
Acrylic on wed panel
24"w x 18"h
In the collection of Sam and Gloria Yates, Knoxville, TN
Conversing
2021
Acrylic on wood panel
12" x 12"
$600
Geomorphology
1988 / 2021
Acrylic on canvas
40.25" x 40.25"
Wood frame
$9,500
Stolen. Anyone who comes across this painting please contact me at 518-610-0301 or tomgil46@aol.com
"Selfie" 2019
Acrylic on wood panel
24"w x 32"h
$4,500
Selfie
2019
Pencil on paper
size, unframed
$800
"Dirty Little Secrets"
2021
Acrylic on wood panel
24" x 24"
$2,800
"Bolthole"
2021
Acrylic on wood panel
24" x 24"
$2,800
"Criminal Alliance"
2020
Acrylic on wood panel
24" x 24"
$2,800
"Eyes On the Prize"
2020
Acrylic on wood panel
24" x 24"
$4,500
Graffiti Artist
2020
Acrylic on wood panel
24" x x24"h, image
$4,500
The Unloved Glove
2019
Acrylic on wood panel
24"w x 48"h, image
$5,500
Untitled - first in the series
2016
Acrylic on canvas
24"w x 36"h, image, unframed
$5,00
The Zealot's Domain
2019
Acrylic on wood panel
24" x 24"
$4,500
Tongue Lashing
2016
Acrylic on wood panel
24" x 24", image
$4,500
Francis Bacon's Steed
2019-20
Acrylic on wood panel
12" x 12"
$600
The Holy See
2019
Acrylic on four wood panels
96"w x 49"h
$15,500
The Jockey, the Horse, and the Radiator Kid
2019
Acrylic on wood panel
$8,000
72"w x 24"h
Drawing for central figure, Jockey
2019
Pencil on paper
unknown size
Twisted Hearts
2019
Acrylic on wood panel
14" x 14"
$600
The Crown and Glory
2018
Acrylic on wood panel
24" x 24", image, framed
$4,500
The Host
2018
Acrylic on wood panel
24" x 24", image
$4,500
The Art of Not Listening
2020
Acrylic on wood panel
24" x 24"
$2,800
The Visionary
2017
Acrylic on wood panel
24" x 24"
$4,500
Nose Bleed
2020
Acrylic on wood panel
12" x 12"
$600
Howling Dogs
2018
Acrylic on wood panel
24" x 24", image, framed
$4,500
Rural Box
2018
Acrylic on wood panel
24" x 24"
$4,500
Office Supplies I
2017
Acrylic on wood panel
24" x 24", image, framed
$4,500
Office Supplies II
2017
Acrylic on wood panel
24" x 24"
$4,500
Gangsters in Love
2019
Acrylic on wood panel
24" x 24"
From the collection of Kip and Dani Hinsdale
Brooklyn, NY
Potion
2017
Acrylic on wood panel
$4,500
24" x 24"
Opening Night
2017
Acrylic on wood panel
24" x 24"
$4,500
"Oracle"
2018 or 2019
Acrylic on wood panel
24" x 24"
$4,500
Reluctant Swimmers
2018
Acrylic on wood panel
48"w x 24"h
$8,000
The Death of Reason
2018
Acrylic on wood panel
24"w x 48"h
$5,500
Simians and Their Rhinoceros
2019
Acrylic on wood panel
60"w x 18"h
$4,800
Factor VIII
2018
Acrylic on three wood panels
72"w x 48"h
$12,000
Digital for Factor VIII
Gargyle
2019
Acrylic on wood panel
24"w x 48"h
$5,500
Insulting Wifredo Lam
2017
Acrylic on three wood panels
72"w x 24"h
$5,500
A Place to Sit
2018
Acrylic on wood panel
24" x 24"
From the collection of Michael Van Horn
Chatham, NY
Toylandia
2018
Acrylic on wood panel
18" x 18" +/-, unframed
Unspecified donation
Surprise Package
2017
Acrylic on wood panel
Approx. 12"w x 20"h
$2,900
Sold Paintings and Drawings
El Cavallo de Italiano
2019
Acrylic on wood panel
24" x 24"
SOLD
From the collection of Dr. Jon Petricciani
Santa Fe, NM
Drawing for "El Cavallo de Italiano"
Pencil on paper
Pharmacy
2019
Acrylic on wood panel
24" x 24"
SOLD
From the collection of Pat Finnigan & Keri Tate
Portola Valley, CA
Morning Wood
2020
Acrylic on wood panel
24"w x 48"h
SOLD
From the collection of David Pearl
Washington, DC / New York, NY
Jonah and Friends
2020
Acrylic on wood panel
24"h x 36"w
SOLD
From the collection of David Pearl
New York, NY
Falling
2018
Acrylic on wood panel
24" x 24"
SOLD
From the collection of Ruth Ansel & Blair Ferguson
Wilmington, DE
Temples
2017
Acrylic on wood panel
24" x 24"
SOLD
From the collection of Joan Finnigan and Mark Matteucci
Portola Valley, CA
Higher Steaks
2020
Acrylic on wood panel
24"w x 48"h
SOLD
From the collection of Joan Finnigan and Mark Matteucci
Portola Valley, CA
Side Orders
2020 - 21
Acrylic on wood panel
24" x 24"
SOLD
From the collection of Ben Frick and Marci May
Jacksonville, FL
Miro in Purgatory
2019
Acrylic on three panels
72"w x 24"h
From the collection of Dr. Jon Petricciani
Santa Fe, CA
Pendant - inspiration for central figure in "Miro in Purgatory"
1969
Silver
1.5"h x 1"
Lost
Holy Family of Baltimore
2019
Acrylic on wood panel
24" x 24"
SOLD
From the collection of Jay Pagano
New York, NY
Split Red Trunk
1998 [approx]
Unknow medium
10"w x 16"h [approx]
SOLD
From the collection of Harold Bronheim and Annette McEvoy
New York, NY
Golden Trunk
1998 [approx]
Acrylic on canvas
48"w x 60"h [approx]
SOLD
From the collection of Harold Bronheim and Annette McEvoy
New York, NY
Tree Triptych
1980s or 1990s
Acrylic on canvas
approx 32"w x 24"h
SOLD
From the collection of
Dr. Jon Petricciani,
Santa Fe, NM
Sarcophagus
1985-86
Acrylic on canvas
Approx 50" x 50"
SOLD
Response to the AIDS epidemic
From the collection of Dr. Jon Petricciani
Santa Fe, NM
Lombard Venue
Unknown date
Pen and ink on paper
Approx. 10"w x 8"h
SOLD
From the collection of Dr. Jon Petricciani
Santa Fe, NM
Mouse Trap
1990's
Acrylic on canvas
Unknown size, approx. 14" x 14"
SOLD
From the collection of Robert Gilling and Margaret DeRoche
Arlington Heights, IL
Mesa
1980's
Pen and ink on paper
Approx. size 16"w x 12"h
SOLD
From the collection of Robert Gilling and Margaret DeRoche
Arlington Heights, IL
Acorns
1980's
Acrylic on canvas
Approx. size 22"w x 18"h ea.
SOLD
From the collection of Janine King and Steve Paganuzzi
Rhinebeck, NY
Trunks on Blue
Late 80's
Acrylic on canvas
Approx. 72"w x 36"h
SOLD
From the estate of Leo Carlin
The Pugilist
80's
Acrylic on canvas
Appox. 42" x 42"
SOLD
From the estate of Leo Carlin
Galley
1980's
Acrylic on canvas
Approx. 32" x 32"
SOLD
From the estate of Leo Carlin
Woven Trunk
1990's
Pen and ink on paper
Unknown size
SOLD
From the collection of Marian McEvoy
Wappingers Falls, NY
Tree
1990's
Pen and ink on paper
Approx. size 6"w x 10"h
SOLD
From the collection of Chris and DeeAnne Gilling
Pewaukee, WI
Raggedy Ann
Undated
Pen and ink on paper
6"w x 10"h
SOLD
From the collection of Peter Bottelk and Tony Proscio
Throne
1990's
Pen and ink on paper
Unknown size but small
SOLD
From the collection of Marni
Lebanon Springs, NY
Mechanistic Landscape
1980's
Acrylic on canvas
Approx. size 50" x 50"
SOLD
From the collection of Dr. John Petricciani
Santa Fe, NM
Blades
3/1983
Acrylic on canvas
12" x 12"
$450
Shelf-life
10/1983
Acrylic on canvas
12" x 12"
$450
Untitled
4/1983
Acrylic on canvas
14" x 14"
$450
Marshland
1980's
Pen and ink on paper
Approx. size 8" x 8"
SOLD
From the collection of Mary and Alex Kaempan
Trees - Drawings. Paintings. Sculpture
Broken Trunk
date
Pen and ink on paper
8"w x 10"h [approx], framed
$550
Side-show Bob
1980's or 90's
Pen and ink on paper
Unknown size
$550
Other Worldly
1980's or 90's
Pen and ink on paper
Unknown size
Marshland
date
Pen and ink on paper
size, framed
$550
Slingshot II
1980's
Pen and ink on paper
Approx. 5" x 7"
$475
Maelstrom
date
Pen and ink on paper
size, framed
$550
Library
1980's
Pen and ink on paper
Unknown size
$550
Pine Out Back
date
Charcoal paper
size, unframed
$550
title
date
Pen and ink on paper
date, framed
$550
Sisters
date
Pen and ink on paper
size
From the collection of Catherine Kilby
Anchorage, AK [but I'm not sure]
Rooted System
date
Pen and ink on paper
size
framed
$550
Etruscan
date
Pen and ink on paper
size
framed
$550
Broken Trunk
1990's
Pen and ink on paper
Unknown size
$550
Crossroads
date
Pen and ink on paper
size
framed
$550
Asset
date
Ink on paper
size, framed
$550
Avenue
date
Ink on paper
size, framed
$550
Feathered
date
Pen and ink on paper
size
Framed
$550
The Lead Balloon
date
Ink on paper
size, framed
$550
Slingshot
date
Pen and ink on paper
size
Unframed
$475
Marshland II
date
Pen and ink on paper
size
Framed
$550
The Decayed Trunk
date
Pen and ink on paper
size
Framed
$550
Roadwork
date
Pen and ink on paper
size
Framed
$550
Fragrant Tree
date
Ink on paper
size, framed
$550
Sentinal
1995
Ink on paper
14.875"w x 16.625"h, black metal frame
$550
Tree on the Mount
date
Ink on paper
size, unframed
$600
Mesa-type pencil drawing
Unknown date
Approx. size 12" x 12"
$750
Mesa-type pencil drawing III
Unknown date
Approx. size 10" x 10"
$750
Golden Scenery
date
Acrylic on canvas
size, framed
$575
Three Trunks
date
Acrylic on canvas
size, framed
$575
Dark Birch
date
Acrylic or oil on canvas
size, framed
$485
Golden Specter
date
Acrylic on canvas
size, unframed
$575
Severed Trunk
date
Acrylic on canvas
size, unframed
$4,500
Plant With A View
date
Acrylic on canvas
24"w x 36"h [approx], unframed
Birch
1990's
Oil or acrylic on canvas
Unknown location
A Sundry of Varying Artwork from the Not-that-so-distant-past
Three Directions
1985 +/-
Acrylic on canvas
24"w x 36"h per panel
$12,000
Nude
1985
Acrylic on canvas
19"w x 16"h, unframed
$1,500
Homage to Boccioni
1980's
Acrylic on canvas
Approx. size 30" x 30"
$3,500
Room With a View
1980's/2021
Acrylic on Canvas
Approx. size 36" x 36"
$4,500
Forms in Space
1980's
Acrylic on canvas
24"w x 36"h ea.
$12,000
a lot of forms
1970's
Pencil on paper ... for a painting
unknown size and location
Painting is in the collection of David Alfuth
Washington, DC
Sarcophagus II
1980's
Acrylic on canvas
Approx. 50" x 50"
Response to the AIDS epidemic
Rob Caramella
Late 1970's
Pencil on paper
Approx. 9"w x 12"h
$950
Artist's collection
Stolen. Anyone who comes across this painting please contact me at 518-610-0301 or tomgil46@aol.com
Lile Moore
Late 1970's
Pencil on paper
$950
Artist's collection
Stolen. Anyone who comes across this painting please contact me at 518-610-0301 or tomgil46@aol.com
David Pearl
Late 1970's
Pencil on paper
$950
Artist's collection
Stolen. Anyone who comes across this painting please contact me at 518-610-0301 or tomgil46@aol.com
Self-portrait
Late 1970's
Pencil on paper
$950
Artist's collection
Stolen. Anyone who comes across this painting please contact me at 518-610-0301 or tomgil46@aol.com
Mail Slot
Approx. 1979
Acrylic on canvas
Approx. 72"w x 48"h
Unknown title
1972
Acrylic on canvas
Approx. 48"w x 40"h
University of North Carolina,
Greensboro, NC
SCULPTURE
Muscle Trunk
date
Clay, paint, wood
approx. size 10"w x 14"h
$1,200
Split Trunk
Late 1980's
Clay and paint
Approx. 30"h x 6w
$3,500
Bone Trunk
date
Clay on stone
Three-limbed Trunk
1990's
Clay and paint
Approx. 14"h x 10"w
Saugerties
2020
Digital
The two objects in the rectangle are small assemblages and were created by a fellow. He and his partner died of AIDS in late 1980's. The "Slingshot" sculptures were inspired by a slingshot one of them created. It was heart wrenching walking through their house and seeing all of the art creations. At the time I worked as a resident manager of a residence for homeless people with AIDS in Poughkeepsie.
DIGITAL DRAWINGS
Cleo and Tony
2000's
Digital
Printed copy in the collection of David Pearl
Washington, DC
Geisha and Samurai
Unknown date
Glass of Vintage Wine
2000's
Digital
Gathering
Mid 2000's
Digital, photo of skeletons from a diorama-type setup with backdrop of a drawing
Flying Buttocks
Unknown date
Digital
The Urologist
Early 2000's
Digital
just to prove that I do have a sense of humor
Digital with photograph of our dining room
Dr. Zhivago Making House Calls
2000's
Digital
Computer Virus
Early 2000's
Digital
And a God Created Money
Early 2000's
Digital
Nothing Personal
Early 2000's
Digital
BIOGRAPHY
BRIEF
After earning a degree from UNC-G, I moved to Washington, D.C., spending ten years painting/drawing and exhibiting as well as teaching for four years in a couple of inner-city schools. From there I moved to NYC in 1983, where I worked as a freelance paste-up artist at various advertising companies and corporate banks, kept a studio and exhibited at various galleries. I began commuting to Milan/Red Hook, NY in 1985 and moved there full-time in 1989 where I maintained a studio and exhibited at different galleries. In 2003, my partner [now spouse] and I moved to Chatham, NY, where we both maintain studios.
EDUCATION
University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh - Bachelor of Art Education - 1965 - 1969
University of NC- Greensboro - Master of Fine Arts in painting and drawing - 1970 – 1972
BIRTHPLACE & DATE
Green Bay, WI February 20, 1946
EXHIBITIONS
Featured on the website:
www.socialdistancingfestival.com 2020
Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY 2019
Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 1990’s
Tivoli Artist’s Coop Gallery, NY 1980’s / early 1990’s
Two or three galleries in NYC 1980’s
Allen Priebe Gallery, UW-Oshkosh 1980’s
Williamsburg Art Gallery, VA * 1980’s
Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY 1980’s
University of Georgetown Fine Arts * 1980’s
a Bogota art gallery, Colombia, SA 1970’s via Pyramid Gallery
Highpoint University Art Gallery, NC * mid 80’s
College of Williams and Mary about 1972
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Biennial, DC late 1970’s
an art gallery in Upper Marlborough, MD 1970’s
Pyramid Gallery, DC 1970’s
Studio Gallery, DC * 1970’s
Raleigh Museum of Art about 1972
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC about 1971
…. and a sundry of others
Forwarded by Dan Laubenstein, Suamico, WI
I used the “Morning Would (Wood)” image you attached as my computer desktop background for a while. After gazing at the complex work several times a day over an extended period, I began to wonder how our local art critic might interpret the painting. So I asked Ben Delbo, president of the Suamico Art League (Motto: Elvis On Velvet IS TOO art!) to have a look. His comments follow. No offense.
Laden with prurient aspects and disturbing symbolism, Thomas Gilling’s recent work, Morning Would (Wood) is a striking piece that is a superb Dali-esque glimpse into the artist’s strange albeit somewhat scary psyche.
Somber colors and murky tones evoke the algae-laden muddy backwaters of Pete’s Lake where Gilling’s first memories were most likely formed. Able to see the pristine waters of Green Bay from the ancestral home, sadly he was irrevocably separated from them by a fetid marsh teeming with mosquitoes, muskrats, relatives and other undesirables. It would not be surprising if this environmental dichotomy contributes to Mssr. Gilling’s strange, intricate and eerie (some speculate absinthe-infused) creations.
Sections of (Wood) yield disturbing symbolism that slashes across the subconscious like painful cuts inflicted by dry cattail leaves on youthful skin, or an angry, repressed and sere nun’s angry ruler slap across the knuckles. Both heal physically, but emotionally? Perhaps not so quickly, hmm?
The pathos exhibited in this painting’s is much to assimilate. Fortunately, just when the viewer is near to being overwhelmed a whiff of Monty Python emerges to provide a playful counterpoint to the otherwise dark themes.
Overall, it will take years to truly plumb the undercurrents hidden in this work. Therapy might help.
Statement from the website, www.socialdistancingfestival.com regarding, my work. November 2020
This submission made me stop to catch my breath. I felt oddly at home looking through these pieces, which I must attribute to the twist in perception that’s recently been forced on must of us. Stop, take a breather, and let your dance through some robust ideas and details.
Impromptu statement by Thomas Gilling for www.socialdistancingfestival.com November 2020
“The pieces certainly reflect an overused term "Surrealistic". Not surprising since de Chirico [and many more] was an inspiration for me a thousand years ago. [I did, however, find his technique too heavy handed]. The surrealist quality in my recent work is blended to produce what I think is a synergism with my previous works imagery created over the past decades, The forms were floating [for the most part] mechanical geometric-type forms, interlocking in some dance of muted colors and, typically, black spaces.
SURREALISM DEFINED...or is it?
Somewhere in this mix I think I have a position. Yes? No?
Merriam-Webster Dictionary, 2020
The principles, ideals, or practice of producing fantastic or incongruous imagery or effects in art, literature, film, or theater by means of unnatural or irrational juxtapositions and combinations. Oct 24, 2020
Expedia
A Surrealist manifesto was written by Breton and published in 1924 as a booklet (Editions du Sagittaire). The document defines Surrealism as:
Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express—verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner—the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.[8]
Surrealism – Art Term | Tatewww.tate.org.uk › art › art-terms › surrealism
Surrealism aimed to revolutionize human experience, rejecting a rational vision of life in favour of one that asserted the value of the unconscious and dreams. The movement's poets and artists
found magic and strange beauty in the unexpected and the uncanny, the disregarded and the unconventional.
The Abstract Surrealism
It is characterized by applying pure automatism, by which the artists invent own figurative universes. Thus, in the automation ideas and associations of images, have a rise and origin of shape
in a fast way, spontaneous, fluid, not taking into account all the coherence and sense. Jan 31, 2018
So, it is rather subjective art which represents free forms that have emerged from the imagination of the creator. Thus with the abstraction can be transmitted different types of sensations, which can be aggressive, calm, dynamism, of rest, of disorder, of harmony. As a result, the more regular the abstract form is more feeling of stability, calm and rest transmitted. On the other hand, if the work is more irregular tends to convey a sense of disorder, aggressiveness, movement and agitation.
Another important feature of the abstract surrealism is that it tends to generate a stand-alone visual language, equipped with their own meanings. This language has built on the experiences fauvist and expressionist, extolling the strength of color and converging in the lyrical abstraction or informalism, also on the basis of the Cubist structure, which configures different geometrical and constructive abstractions.
The Figurative Surrealism
The figurative surrealism movement was born in Europe, in France, after the first world war, being one of its leading representatives, Salvador Dalí. So, there is no more than seeing his works
for extasis in the way as Dali enchants the viewer to enter them in his magnificent paintings surreal world. In which the dimensions of his inner world as how he perceived it to the real world.
So, with that recreated fantastic world the viewer is brought back from the real one, into his inner world. Thus to study his psyche, psychologists and psychoanalysts claim that the only way that
Dalí deal with the separation from his mother since birth, was recreating this inner world that only he could elucidate through his paintings. Thus, in his paintings highlights figurative
surrealism, the nearly photographic way of figures.
Author: typesofartstyles on enero 31, 2018
What is Surrealist Art? Definition
We can say that the definition of Surrealist art is a model that seeks to inspire changes surrealist with conceptual without them to be figurative. This movement started
in France, so Dadaism was one of their bases in the 1920’s, it develops as a way to forget reality and find a way that the artist encloses in himself, in a psychic impulse of the imaginary and
dreams. It emerged as part of the advance of avant-garde wanting to represent ideals other than the academics, breaking the laws of traditional painting and with a purpose to draw the attention
of the viewer directly, with no realistic images and in many cases even figurative.
This style of art tries to find inspiration in the artist’s mind; that is, tries to forget all logical or rational thinking, since in this style of art, the reality does not help to represent a new work with a different expectation. It is for this reason that the painter does not represent subjects that talk about past, objects, experiences changes, among other things, for its main objective is to represent the reality that do not see others, i.e., a reality that is in the unconscious or dream. This is why, surreal art is one of the most difficult to understand and interpret art styles.
Poetry was the beginning of surrealism and later it spread to painting and sculpture, extending to the political world, starting from 1925, identifying with the Communist ideology.
Surrealist art started with the interpretation of dreams of Freud in 1901. The ideas of Freud at the beginning were not well considered but gradually these ideas were permeating the philosophical and artistic imagery of the moment and the artists theories of the moment, they began to describe, draw, paint or to shape that world outside, of the field of consciousness.
André Breton was who wrote “Surrealist manifest” in 1924, as he already in the post-war period developed a new art, this new art represented the fantasies and dreams of artists and not the cruel reality which at that time they had. Although this type of movement was political, the principles were associated with the French Communist Party. For this reason, contradictory ideas were created and the art style began to deteriorate.