Tom Sipas

Tom Sipas paintings can be compared to a balancing act between colour, shape and line, surface and space, abstraction and object. The individual, coloured surfaces are applied to the canvas with strong brush strokes and expressive graphic marks, which are continuously worked over for developing new layers (aka new worlds). Integrated into the process of painting, are more or less defined non-objects, like everyday feelings of anxiety or beautiful moments from the thick of life, which are sometimes contoured in a linear manner or depicted flat, painted over or partially exposed.

In his paintings, the artist combines an enormous variety of materials and with this approach stays true to his style of art in an unafraid and "risktaker" manner, which he realizes over and over in gallery installations and private collections. He uses a wide palette of mixed media, collage, xerox printing, on or inside his world of images.

In Tom Sipas colour-intensive imagery world, the trick is not get caught up in the final object, just keep and feel everything loose between layers of non-figurative space and play intuitively.
The confrontation with and combination of painting and working with different materials on canvas leads inevitably to a ...

1990-1996:
Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest, HU.
Painting Dept. of Dóra Maurer.
1993-1994:
Royal Academy of Fine Arts, (scholarship) Antwerp, NL.
1991-1995:
MOME. Dept. of Photography & Graphics, Budapest, HU.
1995-1998:
Master Degree at the International Ceramic Studio, Kecskemét, HU.

Selected exhibitions:
* Buy or Die, Ram Galerie, Arnhem, NL.
* Windows of Life, Galerija Arka, Vilnius, LT.
* Kutani International Art Fair, JP.
* The Plate Show, Glasgow, GB.
* ST-ART Art Fair, Strasbourg, F.
* Who Wants to be My Art-Dealer?, Csok Gallery, Budapest, HU.
* The Ads Are On! I Gotta Take a Leak…, Csok Gallery, Budapest, HU
* Sex, Life & Angels Series, Csok Galeria, Budapest, HU

Works in Public Places and Collections:
* International Ceramic Studio Collection, Kecskemét
* State Picture Gallery, Budapest
* Applied Art Museum, Budapest
* Kempinski Hotel Corvinus, Budapest –> etc.

Some Publications & Books:
* Painted Clay by Paul Scott, A&C Black Publishing
* The Ceramic Surface Decoration by Matthias Ostermann, A&C Black Publishing
* The Complete Potter by Steve Mattison, Quarto Publishing, London