Artist Statement
I am informed by my environment and the energy that connects people to it. While reflecting on the sensibility of place and its atmosphere, I’m attempting to reinforce an emotional connection with the world and the human experience. Guided by emotion and working to expose its subjective logic.
The work is a blend of conceptual, documentary, and personal narrative that explores the metaphorical transitions that regularly occur within the landscape. Our environments are sending messages to us.
Process Statement
While also working in digital format on Fuji cameras, Polaroid is critical to my practice due to its unpredictability, particularly in the desert heat. It helps me to hold a sense of the fragile stability of nature. Primarily studying the topography through such techniques as color experimentation, deconstruction, and collage. Though some of this work is not all lens based, but created by manipulating photosensitive chemicals into abstract form to resemble landscape.
Thomas Gallagher is a lens-based artist and printmaker, born in Chicago and living in New Mexico, USA. He received his Bachelor of Arts in cinema and photography from Southern Illinois University. With a practice that focuses on the study of our intimate relationships with our lived environments, he is creating images that document urban and natural environments through the use of digital, film, and polaroid cameras. Currently exploring the extensive ecology of the southwest desert landscape, he has been primarily focused on studying the the intersection of abiotic and biotic ecosystems through methods such as size, paper, texture, manipulation, and collage.
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