Fred Tomaselli, was born in Southern California and was shaped by the cultural aftershocks of the 1960s, Tomaselli builds images the way systems are built, through repetition, control, and contradiction. The importance of nature, patterns, and spirituality are evident in his practice. The result is not an escape from the world, but a confrontation with the way we consume it. His vivid, hallucinatory scenes invite viewers to lose themselves in the intricacies of nature, revealing a world that is both transcendent and fractured, sublime and under siege.

He works with precision in a world that often rewards distraction. To create his collage-based works, the artist draws from a vast archive of imagery, field guides, nature books, and printed ephemera, meticulously assembling them into rhythmic figures and geometric formations.

Tomaselli’s piece resonates as a psychological landscape. Alongside the botanical surrealism of Hiejin Yoo, the spiritual density of Allison Janae Hamilton, or the luminous disquiet of Damien Hirst’s butterfly fields, Tomaselli suggests that nature is never neutral. It is a medium of transformation, projection, and sometimes escape. His resin-coated surface becomes a membrane between interior vision and external reality—a fitting portal for a show about thresholds, impermanence, and rebirth.

Tomaselli’s work is held in major collections including MOCA, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Tate, Art Institute of Chicago, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Whitney Museum of American Art, and The Museum of Modern Art.

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