Tom White ~ Psestos
Tom White ~ La Tramuntana Psesto
Tom White ~ Autopista Psesto
Tom White ~Textament Psesto
Tom White ~ Culture Sieve Psesto
Tom White ~ El Texto Psesto
photos by Styrous®
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Tom White ~ Psestos
photos by Styrous®
Tom White
Psestos in Voices @ Kala
Sunday, October 30, 2016
Butohdrawing ~ "Pentagon VS Hexagon"
"Pentagon VS Hexagon"
Tom White with Betty Jo Costanzo
Di Arie Vineyards, Mt. Aukum
photo by Styrous® © 2005
Butohdrawing is a continuation of our previous artistic and teaching
developments in which drawing, painting, video and performance are tools
for recognizing, isolating, and relaying shapes and patterns which are
generated perceptually. This isolation is designed to reveal spatial
relationships not dependent on linear scrutiny, but rather, moving
through the perceptual field to understand collective creation.
Traditionally,
drawing and painting have conveyed images which refer to subjects such
as allegories, portraits, landscapes, still lifes. As postmodern
artists, we seek new definitions of drawing and painting which liberate
the art spirit to convey traditional images as well as text, universal
archetypes and the recording of the processes which venture outside the
art world, into the communities and cultures which may create new
archetypes, symbols and mythologies. Through the use of Butoh
collaboration we wish to further investigate and use the visual focus
and concentration necessary in producing definitions which generate new
drawing and painting.
Although Butoh has evolved as a dance form,
we use its disciplines to reacquaint the individual with a strong
awareness of the five senses, promoting a perception of a wider field.
This fosters creative actions and formations of decisions and protocols
which are artistic and contain a quality of economy proving more
beneficial than those achieved through linear means alone. While we work
together in our studio, we begin with exercises which emulate moving
meditation. These exercises allow us to begin our Butoh Walk, which is a
discipline or regimen of exercises leading to our state of visual focus
and heightened sensory awareness of the peripheral field. It enables us
to begin our unique form of Butohdrawing.
Butohdrawing is inspired by the innovative works of such artists as Cezanne, Mondrian, and Bill Viola. John Cage challenged mid-century modernism by replacing aesthetic decisions with chance operations determining form.
The history of
Butoh Dance begins with Hijikata followed by Ohno and Kasai. In our
individual work previous to Butohdrawing, we each have experimented
with the ingredients now affirmed by our studies with Akira Kasai and
his protégé Setsuko Yamada.
“Butoh, a Japanese indigenous dance form, is not only performance, but also the embodiment of one of the most precise critical spirits in the history of the consciousness of the body, with a strength of thought which impinges deeply on the history of the human spirit Butoh’s actual existence was the imprint left by the potent ideas of Tatsumi Hijikata. The understanding of the body in butoh makes it possible, through the body to give expression even to a flesh ravaged by age and illness, in what at first glance is apparently an enlargement and deepening of the concept of dance. When the style first appeared, Tatsumi Hijikata, himself called it Ankoku Butoh (Dance of Darkness). He founded Butoh with the collaboration of a small number of dancers and artists. Since then, Hijikata’s Theory of Butoh has had a comprehensive effect on contemporary arts in general”
- (Butoh in the Late 1980’s by Kazuko Kuniyoshi with translation by Richard Hart).
© 2008 Tom White and Betty Jo Costanzo
"Pentagon VS Hexagon"
Tom White with Betty Jo Costanzo and Styrous®
photo by Mark Niebauer © 2005
TW aka bUtom
Tom White
Professor Emeritus
California College of the Arts CCA
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Friday, October 14, 2016
Figure exhibtion opens @ the Gray Loft Gallery
Duo ~ watercolor by Tom White
Figure
October 14 – November 19, 2016
Artists’ opening reception:
2nd Friday, October 14, 6- 9 pm
2nd Friday reception:
November 11, 6 - 9 pm
Gallery Hours: Saturdays, 1 to 5 pm
Sundays by appointment
Gray Loft Gallery
2889 Ford Street, third floor
Oakand, CA 94601Monday, October 3, 2016
Boxer
I'm really good at what I do and I need to sell it or give it away.
I need another angel or maybe several to support me by buying these original images.
Boxer©2016
Tom White
Tom White ~ Monday, October 3, 2016
Monday, July 4, 2016
psēstos will show in the Gray Loft Gallery summer salon
I will have my work, psēstos, in the upcoming exhibition, summer salon, which will open at the Gray Loft Gallery.
summer salon
July 8 – August 12, 2016
Opening (2nd Friday) Reception:
July 8, 6 – 9 pm
Closing (2nd Friday) Reception:
August 12, 6 – 9 pm
July 8 – August 12, 2016
Opening (2nd Friday) Reception:
July 8, 6 – 9 pm
Closing (2nd Friday) Reception:
August 12, 6 – 9 pm
pal·imp·sest
ˈpaləm(p)ˌsest/
noun
a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain.
mid 17th century: via Latin from Greek palimpsēstos, from palin ‘again’ + psēstos ‘rubbed smooth.’
ˈpaləm(p)ˌsest/
noun
a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain.
mid 17th century: via Latin from Greek palimpsēstos, from palin ‘again’ + psēstos ‘rubbed smooth.’
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photos by Styrous®
Gray Loft Gallery
2889 Ford Street, 3rd Floor
Oakland, CA 94601
GrayLoftGallery@gmail.com
www.grayloftgallery.com
510.499.3445
2889 Ford Street, 3rd Floor
Oakland, CA 94601
GrayLoftGallery@gmail.com
www.grayloftgallery.com
510.499.3445
Gallery Hours:
Saturdays, 1:00 to 5:00 pm,
Sundays by appointment
Sundays by appointment
Tom White ~ Monday, July 4, 2016
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