Artist Biography
“Thomas Woodruff creates cheerfully perverse painting, indulging a taste for beauty and ornamentation, quirks and oddities…Woodruff has developed a rich pictorial iconography full of satirical excess. He specializes in overused images of a sentimental nature and highly detailed remnants of popular culture; a chorus of colorful birds, cherubic baby faces and luscious flowers appear throughout his body of work alongside a carnival sideshow of mutated cartoon figures, crying clowns and tattoo imagery in bizarre juxtaposition.” (Scoates and Wilbur)
Woodruff made his first print, a lithograph titled The Robin’s Leap, at Shark’s in June 2000. Here Woodruff’s combination of incredible graphic skill and his use of a personal, metaphoric subject charms the viewer as the sweet, sad image of a robin father and his children is constructed.
Selected Collections: The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI; The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
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