Tom Fawkes
Tom Fawkes’ latest exhibition continues the artist’s exploration of manicured gardens, lush landscapes and architectural explorations of the Mediterranean. These densely painted works, tight from a distance and loose upon close inspection, reveal a lush formality. This exhibition will also present trompe l’oeil constructions of doors and passageways, a subject for which Fawkes is especially known and admired.
An MFA graduate of Cranbrook Academy of Art, Tom Fawkes taught at the University of Oregon and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the 1960s. From 1972 – 2004, Fawkes taught drawing and painting at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. He received several awards including an OAC fellowship, an NEA fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation grant. His works are in numerous collections including Safeco, Microsoft, the Seattle Art Museum, and the Portland Art Museum. His work was included in the exhibition In Passionate Pursuit: The Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Collection and Legacy at the Portland Art Museum.