"Dante and Virgil leave behind the sowers of dischord"

"Dante and Virgil Leave Behind the Sowers Dischord"
Hot Worked Glass, Light, and Shadow.


This a glass piece that I did this semester in my advanced glassblowing course. I was working with the way that light interacts with glass, and i was pushing the specific technique of melting glass cane onto bubbles, while they were still hot, hence the raised glass lines that form the figures. it is a scene from "Dante's Inferno."

Saville based Painting

This is a piece that i did based off of the style of the contemporary painter Jenny Saville. She rules.
Her work is often charecterized by very large paintings of women in a very different way then most people would imagine. They are also gigantic. I was just at a Show in Rocehster and saw one of her pieces, it was 10'x12'... That's right 12 feet!

I did not get quite as gnarly with this one.
Oil on Stretched Canvas
5'x5'3"

Self Portrait.

Self Portrait
Oil on Stretched Canvas

This painting to me started off as just a personal excercise in rendering facial structure and fabric, as i started to work on the background it turned into this weird nightmare scene, my profesor kept asking me why i was painting it like that, and at the time my only answer was that its all i could think of. I was thinking more about this idea of why I paint what I paint as the semester went on, and i think it boils down to me painting things that i see and other people don't. weather this be dream like scenes from the depths of my imagination or places that very few people get so see in real life. It seems one of my goals is to put the abstract into something more concrete.

Crack House.

Interior Space with Distortion
Oil on Stretched Canvas

Inferno.

Landscape painting with details
Oil on Stretched canvas.

Junior year.

Well now that i have all of my stuff posted from sophmore year, I can start in with the stuff that I have been working on recently. Along with getting my work "out there" I am hoping that this Blog will help me be able to look at my work more as an outside source, and therefore improve my concept and technique more efficiently.

Fetus works.

Untitled
Cast Wax, Wire, Found Wood, Heat






Untitled
Sculpted Glass, Found Plastic, Found Box, Fake Blood.

Some Glass.

"Disgust"
Blown Glass and "Muck"






Untitled
Kiln Cast Glass, Mirror, Light.

Beasts!

Wood Block Print on Rice paper
"Portrait of an Officer"
AKA. Myself as a Goblin
Oil, and Pigs Blood on Stretched Canvas
3'x5' (Full Scale Life Size)



Detail.

Still Life Action.

Interior Space

Oil on Primed Paper
36"x48"

Just Some Figure Stuff

These are just a selection of some of my favorite figure drawings from my Sophmore year, they are mostly hour long posses, with the one nine hour painting at the end. The painting is Oil on plywood and is about 17"x30".

I Really enjoyed working with white charcoal on paper, I had worked with an entirely toned peice of paper and reduced and added on value, but the process of placing down all of the light onto my work was something that was really interesting to me.

This is a reductive wood block print that I adapted from and Ansel Adams photograph, it is about 30"x20"

Hi There.

My name is Thomas E. Wilcox, I am an artist from the Buffalo, NY region currently going to school at Alfred University for the fine arts. This Blog is just a place for me to post some of my work, and thoughts on it, for future reference, as well as an opportunity to get my work out to more then just the people i know directly. Enjoy.