Holstein / 7″ x 8″ on Scratchboard / Thomas Agran In the gallery, this is the season when artists make certain to deliver work in a timely fashion. It’s a busy, happy time- a harvest of work done in solitude. Amy Plymat’s painted silk scarves are piled beside Thomas Agran’s beautifully rendered scratchboards of classic, [...]
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Thomas Agran
July 22, 2010, 6:01 am
Being “in the zone” for many artists is that alchemical moment when the literal representation of a subject is overwhelmed by the sheer momentum of working spontaneously with materials, marks, form, color and light. This is possibly how I should have started my comments about Thomas Agran the night of his opening here at Campbell [...]
Introducing Thomas Agran
July 8, 2010, 7:09 am
Thomas Agran, working in his studio I remember instructing Thomas Agran to look for a small, gray-haired woman at the Grinnell College’s Bucksbaum Center for the Arts opening for the summer of 2009’s exhibit. I had a few pieces in the show, and I wanted to meet Thomas and visit his studio during the same [...]