Tom Ward

Tom Ward is an American painter whose work follows the abstract expressionist praxis of unconventional mark making. He prefers scrapers, cups, and squeegees over traditional brushes. Most of the time, the work-in-progress is on the floor, and he’s either outstretched over it or running around it, manipulating the paint by pouring, smearing, splatting, or monoprinting the color directly to the canvas.
Ward wants his paintings to confront you with a raw honesty. They are not about anything conceptual or representational. Each piece records a series of personal decisions made through color, composition, and texture in a very specific window of time. They are what they are, and the viewer can experience them without the influence of outside preconceptions.

MFA Printmaking
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

BA Art History/Visual Studies
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
-Adelbert Ames Fine Arts Award
-Wolfenden Fine Arts Prize
-Academic Citation for Drawing
-Marcus Heiman Award for Printmaking

SOLO / DUO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Intersection, Sixty Special Gallery, Provincetown, MA (solo)

2014 Rites Series, Sixty Special Gallery, Provincetown, MA (solo)

2012 Gesture and Flux, Beck Gallery, Columbus, OH (duo)

2007 Six Paintings, Hotel Salon Lily, Columbus, OH (solo)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Here and Beyond: Ohio Art League’s 100th Anniversary Exhibition, Riffe Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, Curated by Margo A. Crutchfield, Senior Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland

2008 Annual Spring Juried Exhibition, Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH, Recipient of the Reneé Steidle Award

2007 Annual Fall Juried Exhibition, Zanesville Art Center, Zanesville, OH, Recipient of the Mary Lou Chess Memorial Award

2007 96th Annual Spring Juried Exhibition, Fort Hayes Shot Tower Gallery, Columbus, OH

2006 One Night: Suite Benefit Art Auction, Huntington Center, Columbus, OH

2006 Annual Fall Juried Exhibition Ohio Art League, James A. Rhodes State Office Tower, Columbus, OH

2005 Memento, Gallery 853, Columbus, OH