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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.