1. Tom Christopher was born on 1952 and is an American painter known for his expressionist urban paintings and murals, mostly of New York City.
20 Facts About Tom Christopher
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Tom Christopher initially studied at the Pasadena Museum of California Art in 1974.
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Tom Christopher then went Art Center College of Design in Pasadena to receive his Bachelor in Fine Arts in 1979 where he studied with the noted California artists Lorser Feitelson and Ward Kimball.
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Tom Christopher supported himself during school by doing drawings at Disney in Anaheim.
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Tom Christopher started his art career with commercial art in California.
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Tom Christopher received a gold record for his work on promotional posters.
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Tom Christopher worked for Motor Trend magazine with photographer Bill Claxton depicting the Las Vegas Grand Prix and Mille Miglia races.
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Tom Christopher began creating fine art in the mid 80's painting household objects and tools on a "Brobdingnagian scale" in addition to making cast-iron sculptures, which were featured "in galleries in the East Village".
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Tom Christopher collaborated with 13 art students to create a mural for the Katonah Museum to celebrate its 40th anniversary.
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In 2016 Tom Christopher collaborated with art students from Escuela de Artes Plasticas y Diseno to create a 4,000 square feet public space mural.
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Tom Christopher has been experimenting with collage-style paintings and silkscreens that utilize multiple images and layers with Master Printer Gary Lichtenstein.
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In 2010 Tom Christopher founded Lift Trucks Project in Croton Falls, New York.
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Tom Christopher is known for his New York City urban paintings.
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Tom Christopher's work is usually done with acrylic paint in an expressionist style.
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Tom Christopher is most notable in the New York City art scene, with mostly positive reviews from sources such as The New York Times.
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Tom Christopher has received acclaim through his museum exhibitions: he was included in the 1999 "New, New York Views" exhibition at Museum of the City of New York, and recently had a "Metropolis" exhibition at Butler Institute of American Art.
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Tom Christopher has become to American painting what Count Basie or Duke Ellington became to American popular music, not completely jazz but certainly owing much to Charlie Parker and Charlie Mingus.
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Tom Christopher has done work on a line of clothing with Urban Outfitters and Nordstroms entitled "Threads4Thought".
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Tom Christopher was commissioned by Michel Roux for the "Absolut Collection" for Absolut Vodka and was included in the "Absolut Book" by Richard Lewis.
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Tom Christopher has designed a "Cruzer" line of snowboards for Burton Snowboards.