Projects

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.)

Tom Christopher has partnered with Ikepod to produce an exclusive line of hand painted sneakers. Proudly handmade in Portugal, the first ever Sneaker designed and produced by a watchmaker. A very limited edition of 200 pairs only worldwide. Scarcity is luxury.  

Originally in the El Mercado in old San Juan, these murals have been reclaimed and are being transferred to the Luis Munoz International Airport, San Juan. This is the first of four to arrive: The Working Men and Women of Puerto Rico.   16’ by 200' After the destruction hit the Island the original performance…

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…

The model is wearing a linen jacket with artwork by Tom Christopher printed on the fabric.

These skateboards were made by Tom Christopher as prototypes for a campaign to produce skateboards under the Ikepod name. With the success of the watch brands bearing his artwork on the watch face, these designs would extend the brand to a younger audience.

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.

Ikepod gives the Horopod 12 New Watch Faces by Tom Christopher Ikepod is working closely with artist Tom Christopher to create unique hand painted dials. Christopher used a circular mask to personally select each image depicted on the dials, which were then meticulously painted by hand. Since its foundation in 1994, Ikepod has always been…

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…

Tom Christopher's paintings are brought to life as the basis for a new line of apparel. Some of his unique canvasses have been used as the theme for a line of brilliantly-colored clothing that consumers are wearing. His work lends itself to the colorful patterns and themes of New York life.  

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…

Art prints available at  Dorado Beach Resort & Club 500 Plantation Drive Suite 1, Dorado, PR 00646

Man Bites Dog Rene Magritte’s best-known work is called The Treachery of Images, but many viewers will probably recognize the droll surrealist masterpiece by another title, one that’s printed on the lower portion of the painting itself. Writ large, the words proclaim Ceci n’est pas une pipe. (“This is not a pipe.”) Since the oil…

The Early Childhood Foundation, created on the initiative of the Financière Meeschaert company under the aegis of the Fondation de France, supports actions carried out in France for children aged 0 to 12. It allows our clients to include philanthropy in their assets through various mechanisms available to support projects carried out in France for the benefit…

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

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.

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…

Commission for Playwrights Horizons, 42nd St. NYC. Artwork for a poster and a notecard.

Tom Christopher T-shirt designs shown on Comedy Central! Host of Comedy Central’s Tosh.O with a Tom Christopher T-Shirt from Urban Outfitters.

Tom Christopher T-shirt designs at Urban Outfitters. (left) "New York is Noir again" poster by Tom Christopher and LTProject.com. (right) The showroom/gallery presentation of Threads for Thought and Tom Christopher modern apparel designs. (below)

Artist and muralist Tom Christopher worked with art students from the Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Diseño to create more than 4,000 square feet of murals celebrating the working men and women of Puerto Rico. Their ideas follow the tradition of Thomas Hart Benton, the WPA artistsand Mexican muralists like Diego Rivera who portrayed the proletarian struggle…

International artist Tom Christopher adds his interpretation of the Absolut vodka spirit in a collaboration with the makers and is included in the compilation tome published by the company

Tom created this illustration for Los Angeles Times Magazine article about novelist Jack London's surfing the waves of Waikiki

One New York art project involved placing statues of white, life-size cows all over manhattan, with different artists painting each one. Tom Christopher's cow was in Times Square.

For an article about traveling to Bombay by writer Octavio Paz, Tom created this illustration to accompany the piece.

An illustration to go with an article about the style of men's briefs, Tom created this work for LA Times magazine.

Mural installation in San Juan: Celebrating the Working Men and Women of Puerto Rico. Artist and muralist Tom Christopher worked together with art students from Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Diseño to create more than 4,000 square feet of murals in Bahia Plaza in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Their ideas follow the tradition of Thomas…

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.

Burton Snowboards commissioned artist Tom Christopher to create unique skins for their boards making each one individual. The paintings as applied to to snowboards make them distinct and easy to locate on the snow covered hills and mark each owner as having eclectic tastes.

Commissioned by Dorado Beach Resort and Club, Tom Christopher is creating a series of paintings that explore the beauty of Puerto Rico. While playing the East Course at Dorado, a humbling experience, the great natural beauty struck us. The Robert Trent Jones course immaculately groomed, was the Invitational Women’s PGA the next day. I can paint…

When I first moved to New York, I got a job with CBS News doing courtroom drawings some undercover work and also fieldwork. I was okay at quickly drawing having studied classical drawing and working at Disneyland drawing people in the park. I had to dress up like a pirate but that’s another story. So…

New York City tourist bureau created these guides for visitors to the city with artwork created by Tom Christopher

Book Cover for the Times Square Business Improvement District

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.…

Artwork for the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization

Tom Christopher, Like Popeye After a Can of Spinach. Never Saw Anybody Move So Fast. Ever. 2004 Courtesy of the artist and Gary Lichtenstein Editions, Ridgefield, CT Master printer and Connecticut native Gary Lichtenstein has collaborated with over ninety artists during the course of his thirty-five-year career. This exhibition brings together forty-eight screenprints from the over eight…

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…

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…

This was an advertisement for China Seas. Commissioned by Inger McCabe Elliot. She founded the company and wrote books on Batik fabrics. She married Oz Elliot, editor at Newsweek. She was fluent in many languages and was a photo-journalist photographing Vietnam. I still get calls requesting the original of this painting.  

Development ideas for Pinterest Offices, Manhattan, NYC

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

Stamp for the U.S. Postal Service

An exhibition consisting of a series of serigraphs and a set of paintings comprising a 22 foot mural focusing on the narrative elements and the visual stimuli of this American City. Serigraphs are not your usual prints. As many as 35 colors are individually pushed through hand cut silk screens onto pure archival rag paper…

SoHo Chic - For the New York Times, to celebrate this art and fashion district of New York.

LP album covers for Igor Stravinsky, Bill Evans and Sonny Rollins

I did these for CBS Records while in art school. I was working at the LA Branch of CBS Records when all the A&R execs went to London for a convention of some sort. They were giddy upon returning saying one of them lost a bet. The bet went like this: A guy stood on…

Tom Christopher Murals for Fox Sports Broadcasting

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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  

The New York Yankees and NYC & Co. commissioned this four foot baseball which is being autographed by New York Yankees manager Joe Torre, at an Atlanta Braves vs New York Yankees game in Turner Field. Tom Christopher's street scenes of cabs and New York streets adorn the baseball.

This was an assignment to illustrate an article for column called 'On the Couch', a look into human behavior around the ways we communicate, or don't, and wish we had.  

This cover appeared on the Fall 1997 Quarterly Review of the Brookings Institute to accompany an article on civil society and why it's important to any forward policy making externally or internally in the halls of power.

For the feature story of the magazine the July/August issue an essay about the pursuit of happiness and how to achieve it.

In the late 90's there was a concern for rising violence in cities as white flight and bureaucratic stumbles had many residents concerned. This piece was for the Boston Globe's Health and Science page. A hunting knife was used as an object of potential violence to accompany a story dealing with the search for the…

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