THOMAS GLASSFORD, HOME/STUDIO VISIT IN MEXICO CITY

view of Thomas Glassford's warehouse studio



fluorescent plant hanging in Thomas Glassford's studio



Thomas Glassford was born in 1963 in Laredo, Texas. He received his BFA from the University of Texas at Austin. In 1990, he moved to Mexico City. Glassford uses everyday materials to create architectural or installation-scale works. Having used diverse objects --from gourds and used broomsticks to mirrors and fluorescent light-- Glassford has most recently used anodized aluminum molded siding. Both decorative and alluring, these industrial materials are transformed into rhythmic images reminiscent of Minimalist sculpture, Op Art painting of the 1960s, as well as Mexican Baroque decorations of the XVIII century.

Selected solo exhibitions include: Xipe Totec, Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico (2010); Afterglow, Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City, Mexico (2010); Cadaver Exquisito, el Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Artes (MUCA) UNAM (2006), La Torre de los Vientos, Mexico City DF (2001) and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Oaxaca (1996). Solo exhibitions include: Select group exhibitions include: Tlatelolco and The Localized Negotiation on of Future Imaginaries, Museum as Hub, New Museum, New York, New York (2008), Second Lives, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York (2008), Constructing a Poetic Universe: The Diane and Bruce Halle Collection of Latin American Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (2007), Los Angeles/Mexico Complejidades y Heterogenidad, La Colección Jumex, Mexico DF (2006), Made in Mexico, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California (2004), Mexico: Identidad y Ruptura, Fundación Teléfonica, Madrid, Spain (2003), La persistencia de la imagen, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico D.F. (2001), Cinco Continentes y una Ciudad, Museo de la Ciudad, Mexico (2000), InSite (1997, 2005), Havana Biennial (1994 and 1997. Select permanent collections include: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; Televisa Collection, Mexico DF; Gelman Collection, Mexico DF; La Colección Jumex, Mexico; The Bruce and Diane Halle Collection, Phoenix, Arizona; Collezione “La Gaia,” Italy; Montblanc International Collection; CIFO Foundation, Miami, Florida; Jerry I Speyer Collection, New York, New York; Vergel Foundation, USA; Neeley Collection, USA; Associaçao Beneficente Alzira Denise Hertzog da Silva, Brazil; Colección Valdemarín, Madrid, Spain and Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Bajadoz, Spain.

Thomas Glassford lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico.

http://www.sicardi.com/artists/thomas-glassford/

THREE AMIGOS IN LONDON: THOMAS GLASSFORD, JONATHAS DE ANDRADE, JAMES OLES

texan/mexican artist Thomas Glassford, brasilian artist Jonathas de Andrade, and art historian James Oles outside the Serpentine Gallery during the opening of Mark Leckey's exhibition


Thomas Glassford and New Zeland palms at the afterparty at Charles Asprey's Little Venice house

Thomas Glassford was born in 1963 in Laredo, Texas. Glassford received his BFA from the University of Texas at Austin. In 1990, he moved to Mexico City. Glassford uses everyday materials to create architectural or installation-scale works. Having used diverse objects --from gourds and used broomsticks to mirrors and fluorescent light to most recently used anodized aluminum molded siding.
http://www.sicardi.com/artists/thomas-glassford/

Jonathas de Andrade was born in Maceió, Brasil in 1982 and lived in Recife. He works with photography, installation, and film to document the shifting terrain of private narratives within larger social spaces, exploring such themes as failed modernity and cultural amnesia. Exploring social and cultural conditions of place, de Andrade employs investigative processes such researching, mapping and surveying - using historical and archaeological documents and found artefacts to gently weave new fictions. De Andrade is currently artist in residence at Gasworks in London.
http://www.jonathasdeandrade.com/

James Oles was born in Torrington, Connecticut in 1962 and divides his time between Mexico City and Massachusetts. He received a B.A. in Latin American Studies from Yale University in 1984 and a PhD degree in History of Art from Yale University in 1995. Oles is a Professor of Art at Wellesley College, where he teaches Latin American art, focusing on the history of Mexico from the ancient through modern eras. In 2002 he was appointed adjunct curator of Latin American art at the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, where he advises on exhibitions and acquisitions of works of ancient and modern Latin American art. He is author and curator of 'South of the Border: Mexico in the American Imagination, 1914-1947' (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993). His most recent curatorial projects include 'Shouts from the Archive: Political Prints from the Taller de Gráfica Popular' (CCUT, 2008-09) as well as retrospectives of Mexican artists Agustín Lazo and Pedro Friedeberg.