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Tom McGlynn

Tom McGlynn is an American abstract artist whose oeuvre explores interactive color and proportion in tension with their potential semiotic meaning. He is also an independent curator and a writer, contributing regularly to The Brooklyn Rail. Furthermore, the artist is the founding director of Beautiful Fields, an organization dedicated to socially-engaged curatorial projects. He is currently teaching at the Parsons New School of Design in New York City.


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Born 1958
Hometown Teaneck, New Jersey
Lives and Works New York, NY
Education
Ramapo College in New Jersey, BFA in printmaking in 1980. In 1996, the artist obtained his MFA in painting from Hunter College.
Permanent Collection

The artist's paintings are included in several permanent institutional collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Whitney Museum, and MoMA in NY.