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New Exhibition: Tom Hammick – ‘Lunar Voyage’ – bridgeman blog

Written by Alan Firmin | Oct 26, 2017 11:00:00 PM

Tom Hammick embarks on an out-of-this-world exhibition in October, with a new series of paintings in his latest exhibition ‘Lunar Voyage’ at Flowers Gallery, New York.

Exhibition: ‘Lunar Voyage’ – Tom Hammick

Location: Flowers Gallery, NEW YORK Chelsea, 529 West 20th Street, New York. NY 10011.

Dates: 24 October – 16 December 2017

Chamber 2017 Reduction woodcut © Tom Hammick

Tom Hammick has described landscape in his work as a metaphor to explore an “imaginary and mythological dreamscape.” Drawing from a wide range of sources, from Japanese woodblock prints to Northern European Romantic painting, utopian Modernism, and contemporary cinema, Hammick’s depictions of isolated human dwellings grounded in uncanny dream-like settings summon the uneasy atmosphere of a psychologically-charged thriller or a dystopian suburban nightmare.

Fly-By 2017 Reduction woodcut © Tom Hammick

Lunar Voyage
‘Can one embark on a journey without ever setting foot from home?’ This question lingers over Tom Hammick’s latest series of paintings and prints, Lunar Voyage, a metaphorical interstellar road-trip, calling on the nocturnal reveries of nightwalkers, armchair explorers, star-crossed lovers, composers, poets, and virtual adventurers of screen-based worlds. At times fragmented and associative, the imagery of ‘Lunar Voyage’ channels fever-dreams or night visions, resembling the descent into psychosis of the narrator in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper, or a journey of memory, such as that sparked by the madeleine dipped in tea in Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu.

Journey to the Moon 2017 Reduction woodcut © Tom Hammick

Sleeper 2017 Reduction woodcut © Tom Hammick

For more information please visit the Flower Gallery website.

Click here to view all of Tom Hammick’s images that are available for licensing.