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Artist Exhibitions:
Tom Jewusiak's oil paintings
are currently on display at
the Henegar Center for the
Arts in Downtown Melbourne, at
the Fredlund Gallery in Winter
Park, Florida, recently at a
juried show at The Fifth
Avenue Art Gallery in Historic
Downtown Eau Gallie, and
another juried show sponsored
by the ...
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Artist Galleries:
Tom Jewusiak's oil paintings
are currently on display at
the Henegar Center for the
Arts in Downtown Melbourne, at
the Fredlund Gallery in Winter
Park, Florida....
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Artist Reviews:
Three of the painter's oils
were chosen for display at
Visions 2007, a juried art
show sponsored by the
Strawbridge Art League. At
that show the painter was
awarded the Thomson Award For
Oils.
Harry Messersmith, the judge
of Visions 2007, wrote of the
painter’s work: “The
excitement ...
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Collections:
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Commissions:
Commissioned oil paintings
take a minimum of seven months
from commitment to delivery of
the completed work. Timing
depends on whether the subject
has a concrete existence or
whether the painting will be
based on old photographs,
drawings, recollections or
historical descriptions.
Commissioned portraits take a
month longer. If time ...
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Artist Statement for Thomas Jewusiak
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Artist’s Statement
I reject the description of the style of my painting as photorealistic. I make no attempt to duplicate a photograph. Although there can be a valid artistic point in doing this, it is decidedly not my point. I attempt to communicate a reality or rather an illusion of actuality, as perceived by the eye and mind that is more intense, more concentrated than that which can be captured by the camera and lens alone. I also attempt a more honest portrayal of what is real than can be produced by the simple photograph. Since many of my paintings are purely conceptual, existing originally only in the imagination, or as a distillation or manipulation of many separate scenes that may exist, did exist or I think existed, the charge of “merely” duplicating a photograph is particularly galling. By representing the finest detail in paint I attempt to foster the illusion, (or foist the illusion), to give a perceived concrete existence to a pure product of the interpretive imagination. The sometimes excruciating detail is fundamental to the intended impression, a sleight of hand (or eye), where we are perhaps distracted by the minutia, enamored of it and thus lulled into a forgetfulness that the whole is artifice, an elaborate construct that takes on a life entirely its own, an exaggerated reality so real that it seems dream-like, a dream more real than waking.
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