Thomas deininger miami
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Thomas Deininger American, b. 1970
Thomas Deininger is a Rhode Island based artist whose work combines environmental concerns with an innovative approach to image making. His found object assemblages are constructed from non-recyclable, non-biodegradable materials that pile up in our nation’s landfills. Works like this provide a thoughtful response to mass consumerism. He asks the viewer to reconsider the potential for transcendence of the mundane. His works are in many private and public collections throughout the world.
In his early twenties, he traveled the world for several years exploring Europe, Central America, and the South Pacific. It was during these explorations that Deininger developed thoughts on American consumerism as he witnessed the frugal resourcefulness of non-industrial cultures and the problems of waste blanketing the shores of distant islands. It was after a trip to the Nantucket landfill that he came up with the idea of making realist assemblages out of found materials. His detritus mosaics are a response to the ways in which mass-produced
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(b. 1970) Boston, Ma. Raised in Norwell, Ma. Attended Salve Regina University, graduated with Academic honors in art. Upon graduation I was selected to execute two large commissions for a local church. With the money I traveled to Europe. Spent my twenties going from place to place setting up studios, selling artwork. In 1999 I moved to Newport, RI. Where I found a large studio space in nearby Fall River, Ma. to execute large found object works. My work is in numerous public and private collections through out the world. I live with my wife and three children in Bristol, RI.
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Wave 3 (yellow sun) after Clark Little, 2012
SCULPTURE
Artist: Tom Deininger
Sculpture Dimensions: 6' x 8' x 3'
Materials: Found plastic objects on panel.
About: Named after surf photographer Clark Little who takes these beautiful shots of Hawaii's North Shore waves, this piece is reflective of Deininger's love of surfing, the ocean and his travels to the Pacific combined with his concern for the health of our planet's waters. The great plastic garbage patch inspired
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Thomas Deininger
I create work across a broad spectrum of mediums and employ different methods and techniques, from drawing and painting to video, sculpture, and installation. These various disciplines inform and often bleed into one another. I believe that an idea is manifested in whatever form is most appropriate for the specific concept to take shape and be communicated. Ultimately, It’s the idea that dictates the process.
Through my found object sculptural work, I explore a variety of concepts, but there are at least four or five recurring themes that are fairly consistent. They are, in no particular order or relevance, perspective and illusion in both a visual form (abstraction vs. representation) and a conceptual or metaphorical one (what we believe we understand from any given reference point versus what the complex reality may be from different vantages). I contemplate theories of order from chaos and vice/versa and human’s often futile attempts at classification and taxonomy in a messy world of entropy, disorder, and sublimity. My work also celebrates and condemns our
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