PREVIEW: Wednesday 17 September, 6 – 8pm  RSVP
OPEN: 11am – 6pm

Messums ORG are delighted to present a solo exhibition by abstract painter Tom Robinson in New York this September.

Tom describes his work as ‘reaching for something beyond the surface’. His process is rooted in an intuitive approach in which formal elements are manipulated until an image emerges, hovering between stability and the possibility of a further realisation. It is an instinctive yet considered way of working. The paintings start from an inchoate impulse to use a particular colour, movement or tone and, through the process of adding and subtracting, go on to establish a structure and logic of colour. Robinson places great importance in taking colour off the surface, as well as in applying paint. His understanding of colour is subtle and often surprising. The forms move against each other: coming forwards and receding to create space, and giving the surfaces a three-dimensionality akin to relief sculpture.