Tom Driscoll | Configurations
Current exhibition
Overview
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 1 from 4-6 pm
Quint Gallery is pleased to present a selection of recent and past sculptures by Tom Driscoll. This presentation includes his Array series: wall-mounted arrangements of industrial forms cast from gypsum cement mixed with powdered pigments.
Driscoll’s sculpture practice stretches back to 1966 in San Diego, when he enrolled at Southwestern College in Chula Vista after returning from a three-year stint in the service. Faculty members like John Baldessari and Bob Matheny, and visiting artist lectures from Robert Irwin, Newton Harrison, Ed ‘Big Daddy’ Roth and others were formative for the artist. While working a maintenance job at a lab at The Scripps Institute of Oceanography from 1983-2006, he discovered the castoff objects and machinery parts that would become the basis of his object-oriented practice. Early sculptures began in resin and then developed into the cast concrete and gypsum works, including his Arrays. These tactile cast sculptures are made from molds of styrofoam packaging for industrial equipment and toys, varying in degrees of familiarity and definition.
There will be a reception with the artist on Saturday, February 1 from 4-6pm, followed by the Dear LA, Love, SD fundraiser at 7655 Girard from 6-8pm.
Driscoll’s sculpture practice stretches back to 1966 in San Diego, when he enrolled at Southwestern College in Chula Vista after returning from a three-year stint in the service. Faculty members like John Baldessari and Bob Matheny, and visiting artist lectures from Robert Irwin, Newton Harrison, Ed ‘Big Daddy’ Roth and others were formative for the artist. While working a maintenance job at a lab at The Scripps Institute of Oceanography from 1983-2006, he discovered the castoff objects and machinery parts that would become the basis of his object-oriented practice. Early sculptures began in resin and then developed into the cast concrete and gypsum works, including his Arrays. These tactile cast sculptures are made from molds of styrofoam packaging for industrial equipment and toys, varying in degrees of familiarity and definition.
There will be a reception with the artist on Saturday, February 1 from 4-6pm, followed by the Dear LA, Love, SD fundraiser at 7655 Girard from 6-8pm.
