Tom French: Consciousness Or the Unconscious
A sense of disquiet lingers when faced with French’s canvases, perhaps triggered by a feeling that behind each piece, lies an ulterior narrative ready to unfold. His intricately produced skull images are transfigured so as to obtain the greatest degree of intensity and conceptual integrity. Figurativism often extends its hand pleasurably to those who struggle to manifest their ideas at a point of comfortability.
However, it is this overlooked area of pleasure that the artist uses an an extension beyond mere amusement, and into in-trigue — both entrapping and emancipating spectators as they are at once beckoned and enchanted.
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