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Artist Tom Christopher has brought his visionary eye to the stage in a breathtaking set design for Satchmo at the Waldorf performed at The Schoolhouse Theatre in Croton Falls, NY. Known for pushing the boundaries of visual storytelling, the artist’s transformation of the stage has added a deeply immersive dimension to the production. "Created by…

A new set of serigraphs collaborating with master printer Gary Lichtenstein who has relocated his studio to Massachusetts at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA.)

Molly Barnes hosted an opening in her garage, a current trend in the  Los Angeles Art scene. Tom's work was part of a group showing.    

Art Miami is consistently recognized as a leading destination for the acquisition of the most important works from the 20th and 21st centuries in collaboration with the world's most respected galleries. Art Miami 2024 will kick off with the highly anticipated VIP Preview on Tuesday, December 3rd before opening to the public through Sunday, December…

Miami’s original and longest running contemporary art fair and second most attended fair globally, Art Miami is consistently recognized as a leading destination for the acquisition of the most important works from the 20th and 21st centuries in collaboration with the world's most respected galleries. Yes, Another Mai Tai, And Look, The Skyline, Now My…

The Katonah Museum of Art announced a site-specific mural installation in the museum’s atrium as part of its 40th anniversary celebration. Renowned artist and muralist, Tom Christopher, known for his expressionist take on urban life, collaborated with a selection of students representing nearby schools to produce a visual compilation of creativity and ideas. Artist Tom…

Art Miami, America’s foremost contemporary and modern art fair, annually showcases the most significant artworks of the 20th and 21st centuries and is a “can’t miss” event for collectors, curators, museum professionals and art enthusiasts. Distinguished for its quality, depth, and diversity, Art Miami features investment quality paintings, drawings, design, sculpture, NFTs, video art, photography…

A large canvas installed in the lobby of 665 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY. The artist Tom Christopher is here to add finishing touches and to oversee the site for Gibney, Anthony, Flaherty Law offices.

Paintings on the walls of a 100 year old wine store. Scenes from a vineyard in Beaune, France we visited while researching brands for a wine store.  Sketches and drawings were translated into classic frescos painted in plaster over old railroad station windows. It was a very fun project.

October 23, 2020 - July 25, 2021 As part of the Asia Society Triennial: We Do Not Dream Alone — a multi-venue festival of art, ideas, and innovation, the New-York Historical Society and Asia Society Museum open their first-ever collaborative exhibition, Dreaming Together. More than 35 interwoven works drawn from both art collections generate dialogue…

Construction Worker, pen and ink, 8 x 10 At One, acrylic on canvas, 24 x 36 The Working Men and Women of New York City Impressed by the resilience and American courage to keep going, no matter what. The everyday workers: the traffic cop, a cake decorator lady in Grand Central, street cleaning guy, bike…

New York Exhibition Opens - Is the City Ready? Laverdin Gallery, 445 Park Avenue, becomes one of the first to break the silence with "Life Before A Pandemic", an exhibition of Tom Christopher’s expressionist paintings of the city’s not-too-distant past. The paintings explode with his classic energy, the NYC we love (and sometimes loath) -…

This extraordinary exhibition at the Fashion Institute of Technology demonstrates the interaction of artistic virtual reality and how patients respond to medical treatment while they are experiencing the virtual environment. Tom Christopher along with FIT artists and technicians, using Google Tilt Brush, have created artwork which will be on view in a “fourth dimension.” The…

From the Arthur O. Sulzberger collection, this painting was reproduced in subway stations in NYC.

On November 2-4, Tom Christopher will participate in Discovery Art Fair in Frankfurt, Germany. He will be exhibiting his VR art to the public for the first time with Galerie Barbara Von Stechow. The Discovery Art Fair grants a multifaceted offer to art lovers and art interested, young and established collectors, but also for first-time buyers.…

Tom Christopher exhibiting with Galerie Barbara von Stechow at Art Miami. Swimming with the Sharks at Art Miami 2017. "Many of the titles are of things overheard on the street. They go with the paintings to document a time and place. It seems like everyone is talking on the phone or telling stories, many times…

A virtual showing of Virtual Reality Paintings at the Conde Nast Building, 42nd at Broadway, NYC. Tom Christopher on hand to engage and explain the process and what you experience viewing.

Showing a selection from the artists Tom Christopher, Don Nice, Hunt Slonem, Josef Fischnaller, and Philipp Hofmann. The fair presents robust and dynamic presentations from international galleries, and work from influential artists from the contemporary, modern, post-war and pop eras.   MAY 3 – 6 | 2018 VIP PREVIEW MAY 3 INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY * MODERN ART FAIR Galerie Barbara von…

Tom Christopher and recent grads from the Fashion Institute of Technology collaborated on two virtual reality projects building virtual landscapes. The first was recreating an entire city block in the South Bronx. For the second phase a portion of the New York Botanical Gardens, a recreation and reinterpretation of the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory and…

Tom Christopher's work in the Art Miami show in 2017. Art Miami maintains a preeminent position in America's modern and contemporary art fair market and is g​lobally recognized as a primary destination for the acquisition of the most important works from the 20th and 21st centuries​. Art Miami features investment quality work, solo shows and…

Contemporary Modern Art Fair on Pier 94 in New York. The fair presents robust and dynamic presentations from international galleries, and work from influential artists from the contemporary, modern, post-war and pop eras.

Collector viewing Tom Christopher's New York City series at Galerie Barbara von Stechow in Frankfurt, Germany. Walk, Don't Walk with Andre the Giant 40 x 30 in studio frame Let Us Now Celebrate the Workers of New York (number I) 36 x 48

Tom Christopher's work exhibited at J. N. Bartfield, the oldest gallery in the nation specializing in artworks by the masters of the American West with a long and storied history of providing assistance to important private and public collections. Christopher's work is represented along with classic American painters from Thomas Cole to Thomas Hart Benton…

Painters Tom Christopher and Andy Hammerstein talk about their experience painting in public in the lobby of the now-renovated Brill Building in Times Square in 2014.

Tom Christopher shows some of his recent work in the gallery and is on hand to talk with visitors when the Schoolhouse Theater hosts a "Meet the artist" event in March. A nonprofit organization and venerable cultural center devoted to professional theater, the Schoolhouse Theater presents live music, and entertainment at the highest possible standard.…

A site specific project designed to highlight a New York experience. A fantasy vision, based on the reality of New York City street scenes with varying perspectives, expressionistic colors also incorporating tattoo imagery such as hearts and roses, split-tail swallows carrying Dear John letters and other allegorical symbols. I Like New York Because Everything Interesting…

"Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order." — Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge Tom Christopher has always had his eye on the city, his finger on the changing rhythms of…

Hubert Gallery presents The City Abstracted. Featuring work by Dennis Campay, Paul Chojnowski, Tom Christopher, Valerio D'Ospina, Alicia Dubnyckyj, Geoffrey Johnson and Jeremy Mann. Opening Reception Saturday March 16th. Greg Hubert show 2012

London Terrace, which was designed by Farrar & Watmaugh, was completed by Henry Mandel in 1931, it was considered the largest apartment building in the world with 1,665 apartments. In 1948, the building was divided into two parts and sold to separate management companies. The ten middle buildings were sold to four partners, which included…

Development ideas for Pinterest Offices, Manhattan, NYC

Tom Christopher and Gary Lichtenstein were invited to New York's city hall to present a framed serigraph to Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Master printer Lichtenstein and artist Christopher collaborated on a series of New York-themed prints. The work will be exhibited in City Hall.

On October 20, 1942, an extraordinary new art gallery opened on the fifth floor of 30 West 57th Street in New York City. Art of This Century was a pioneering exhibition space Entitled Art of This Century, it was like no exhibition space that had ever been seen before. Some of its innovations - intermittently…

Commissioned for the MTA Arts in Transit program this poster appeared in subways and railcars over the metropolitan area.

Tom Christopher: Metropolis Opening night at The Butler Institute - April 6th - May 25th 2008. The Butler Institute of American Art was the first museum dedicated exclusively to American art. Established by local industrialist and philanthropist Joseph G. Butler, Jr., the museum has been operating pro bono since 1919. The Butler’s role in the…

Tom Christopher's work exhibited at the HSBC corporate office lobby 2008. Working with Barbara Stechow an exhibition of Christopher's work will open showcasing the expressionist work of city views and daily life.

Tom Christopher's work on display at the Conde Nast building in New York City.  A few shots of the Installation and opening night as Tom directed workers and mingled with guests are the reception later on that night.

Opening night at the Van Brunt Gallery in Beacon, New York.

Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield, Connecticut The show explores the form and color collaboration relationship between printer and artist in the printmaking process. A few shots form the opening of the show.

An exhibition of paintings by artist Tom Christopher Interpreting Times Square These paintings and text explore some of the narrative and visual elements that make up the epicenter of this uniquely American city. On view at The Times Square Information Center 7th Avenue between 46th and 47th Streets

"THE TIMES SQUARE PROJECT" at the LAB GALLERY, New York, New York. This famous art testing ground for new projects was the first installation of the Times Square Project. EXHIBITION OF MURAL AND ALL PRINTED ART - GALERIE BABARA VON STECHOW An exhibition consisting of a series of serigraphs and a set of paintings comprising…

Opening reception for a showing in 2005. Findlay Galleries is an iconic 149-year old family art business founded in 1870 representing over 100 artists and artist estates with locations in both palm Beach and New York. Specializing in impressionism, European Modernism, l’Ecole de Rouen, l’Ecole de Paris and 20th Century American Art, with exclusive representation…

“At the Crossroads of Desire: A Times Square Centennial” looks back on how Times Square has evolved over the past century as a nexus for the real estate, journalism, advertising and entertainment industries, at the same time that it has served as a crucible for changing notions of urban planning, morality and public display –…

"Tom Christopher's Studio" Permanent collection of the New York Historical Society Museum. ARTIST/MAKER: Tom Christopher DATE: 2002 MEDIUM: Wood, paint, metal, cotton DESCRIPTION: Group of 39 paint stir sticks, and 2 pallete knives, covered with paint. 36 are single sticks, 1 is a clump of 2 sticks, 1 is clump of 4 sticks. Wooden folding…

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Icons of Times Square are captured in color on the back wall of Roseland Ballroom. This project is the vision of urban artist Tom Christopher, who designed the upper portion of the 23 foot high wall canvas. Students created the lower six feet. The 225 foot long mural is on the back of Roseland Ballroom,…

Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York Mason’s Trowel, (Automotive enamel, 10’6″ x 65’) was painted to be seen on two levels: at close range the image is obscured, one sees only the garish automotive enamel paint splashed over raw corrugated steel. Many passersby miss the subject and react solely to the surface. Secondly,…

35' by 65' Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City NY.  1987 Painted with automotive paint on galvanized corrugated steel, this mural ran along Vernon Blvd at one of the steel factories that once lined the waterfront.Now demolished and soon to be a residential development.   Initial sketch   Final version  

Richard Bellamy was the “Eye of the Sixties”. The sculpture, he thought, had “Saturnian gravity.”Bronze edition of threeExhibited with Richard Bellamy. Oil&Steel Gallery, NYCWhereabouts unknown. Last seen at Socrates Sculpture Park, LIC, NY