Thomas Condon - Chemigrams
Tom Condon received his BFA in Painting from Virginia Tech and his MFA in Photography and Film from Virginia Commonwealth University, VCUarts. Tom’s art is professionally represented by ADA Gallery in Richmond, Virginia, and Wm. Post Gallery in NYC. His work has appeared in International art fairs and competitions such as UNTITLED Miami, SCOPE (Miami and New York), the Affordable Art Fair, and artDC. He has received artist grants from the Chautauqua School of the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, a professional fellowship in printmaking from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, a Publication Fellowship with Peripheral Vision, and a WorkingArtist.org Photography Prize. Tom Condon exemplifies an amalgam of painting and photography with his unique silver gelatin chemigrams. This experimental process utilizes a painterly application of photochemistry to light-sensitive paper creating new imagery that Tom describes as an “imagining of the simultaneous impossibility of the abstract and the familiarity of the real.” Currently, he is working as the Coordinator of Photography, Drawing & Painting at Penland School of Craft in Penland, North Carolina.