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"David
Tomb: Diorama"
by
Harry Roche, SF Weekly
.:
David Tomb: Diorama
Hackett-Freedman Gallery
San Francisco, CA
One of the Bay Area's best painters, David Tomb defiantly traffics in an old-fangled
and unhip genre: portraiture. "David Tomb: Diorama" at the Hackett-Freedman
Gallery brings together four sensual, life-sized portraits of people near
and dear to him. As these unfold into intimate psychological studies, Tomb
emerges as a painter's painter -- that is, one who revels in the pleasures
of paint itself. Masterfully blending abstract and representational elements,
his rich surfaces are slathered with frostinglike furrows while the subjects'
meaty faces and flesh rise from voluptuous color shards that reflect the influences
of Lucien Freud and Francis Bacon. Susan depicts a bird's-eye view of the
artist's raven-haired wife, wearily clutching a champagne glass, against a
buttery yellow backdrop. The thin-skeined Steven, an unusually impasto-leeched
full-length portrait of performance artist Steven Raspa, is awash in eye-popping
electric acid reds and blues. It jumps off the wall 'atcha like a psychedelic
Day-Glo dandy (replete with peacock and bubble-blower).
.: SF Weekly , November 15, 2000
Steven
2000
Oil on canvas
80" x 60"
by David Tomb
.:
San Francisco
Chronicle IV
.: San Francisco Chronicle I
.: San Francisco
Chronicle II
.: San
Francisco Chronicle III
.: SF Weekly
.: Essay by Harry Roche
.:
Essay by Bruce Nixon
.:
Review: San Francisco
Bay Guardian
.:
Artweek
.:
San Diego Union-Tribune
