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Artist Statement – Thomas Ackermann

As a painter for more than 40 years I have endeavoured to elicit a visceral experience of my paintings for the viewer. My interest is not only WHAT (subject) I’m painting but HOW (process) I physically make a painting. Half my subject is the painting itself. I have developed a very personal way of applying my materials onto the canvas, in spirit, much like Pollock or Frankenthaler dripping or pouring. I am using a 600 year old medium (oil paint) and re-invented (altered) it to suit my unique process. My paint surfaces are either highly reflective (without topical varnishes) or extremely rough and textured. A brush has not touched the final surface.
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1952 Born in Bad Hersfeld, Germany
1964 Immigrated to Toronto, Ontario
1988 Winter Studio in Spain until 1997
 Works and lives in Forest, Ont.

 

EDUCATION

1971 General Arts Program, York University
1972-1974  Toronto New School of Art,

NOTEWORTHY

2006 1st. Prize Gallery Lambton “Look Show”
1998 Prize Gallery Lambton “Look Show”
1997 The Qabala Paintings Catalogue , Gallery Lambton/ Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
1993 Thomas Ackermann. Paintings, 1973 – 1993, Galery Onder De Toren, Veurne,Belgium Catalogue published with text in English, French, German and Spanish.
1993 Paint Finalist at the Biennal de la Pintura, Murcia, Spain
1988 Establishes a winter studio in Cala Panizo, Almeria, in the south of Spain. Travels and exhibits throughout Europe.
1977 Co-founder of the Artists’ Co-operative at 9 Davies Avenue, Toronto
1975 Ontario Arts Council grant
1971  Travels throughout South and West Africa

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Solo

2017 “Age of Fission Paintings” R.W.Lawton Gallery, Sarnia, Ont
2016 “Out of the Blue” Fringe Gallery, London, Ontario
“The Duralar Paintings” Vintage Conservatory, Toronto, Ontario
2008 “I can Predict the Present” The Lawrence House for the Arts, Sarnia
2006 “Practicing Safe War” Gallery Solé Toronto,Ont.
2005 “The Disasters of War” Gallery Lambton, Sarnia Ont.
“Say No” The Energy Exchange, Sarnia, Ont.
2004 “Larger than Life” Gallery Bibianne, Toronto Ont.
2002 “Cards and Clones” The Arts Project, London, Ont.
2001 “Intense Flowers” Lovart Gallery, Forest, Ont.
2000 “Sleeping With Jesus”, St. Johns Anglican Church, Kettle Point Indian Reserve
1998  “The Qabala Paintings”, Kitchener/Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener
“Recent Paintings” , Kleinman Fine Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
1997  “The Qabala Paintings”, Gallery Lambton ,Sarnia ,Ontario
1996  Gallery in the Grove, Brights Grove, Ontario
1995  Gallery Sureste, Granada, Spain
“Buddhas” Gallery Gevaert, Zwevezeele, Belgium
“Viennese Variations,”Guild Hall, Sarnia
1994  “Revising the Sacred”, Arts on King, Toronto, Ontario”
“Vibrations of a Higher Consciousness”,Victoria Hall Gallery, Petrolia,
“Recent Paintings and Drawings” Kenneith Gallery, Sarnia, Ont.
1993  “Saints and Symbols”, Kunstmuseum, Bad Hersfeld, Germany
“Searching the Enfolded Symmetry”, Kenneith Gallery, Sarnia, Ontario
1992 “The Hunters” La Casa de la Cultura, Aguilas, Spain.
“20 Years of Painting” Galeri Onder de Toren, Veurne, Belgium.
“Pinturas y Banderas” El Centro Cultural de la Ciudad de Lorca, Spain.
“The Hunters” El Torre, Villaricos, Almeria, Spain
1982  “Recent Works” Goethe Institute.
1978 – 1981  Studio Gallery 9, Toronto.
1976 Gallery Goldframe, Toronto
1975  The Learning Resource Centre, Toronto


Group

2017 The Brewery Show, UNKLE Collective, Anderson Breweries, London Ontario.
Design House London, Inaugural Exhibit, UNKLE Collective
2011  Ackermann, Segan, Walty. Chatham/Kent Museum
2008 New Leaf Yoga Show – Ackermann /Angus, Toronto
2007 The Group Show, Gallery Solé, Toronto
2006 “An Exotic Erotic Christmas” Headbones Gallery, Toronto
The “Illuminati Group” Gallery Solé, Toronto
“X Country Selection” Headbones Gallery Toronto
“Chemical” Sarnia Artist Collective, The Arts Project, London, Ont.
“The Look Show, Gallery Lambton, Sarnia
2005 “Erdegruppe” Group show with group of 7 painters, Gallery Lambton
2004 “Blue” Gallery Bibianne, Toronto
Erdegruppe Munclinger “ Inaugural Show, Sarnia, Ontario
2003 The Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Ont.
Gallery Artists, Lovart, Forest, Ont.
1996-99 The “Look” Show, Gallery Lambton, Sarnia
1994 47th Annual Western Ontario Exhibition, Museum London, Ont.
1993  Biennal De La Pintura, Murcia, Spain
Exposicion Nacional de Pintura y Escultura, Valdepenas, Cuidad Real, Spain
1992 “Pintors Almariense” Ayuntamiento Garrucha, Almeria
IV Jornadas Nacionales de Escultura, Pintura y Diseno, Macael, Spain
1991 “Exposicion Complutense” Purchena, Almeria
1986  Magder Studio, Scarborough.
1986  Artists’ Space, Hamilton.
1982  Studio Gallery 9, Toronto
1982  Palais de Congres, Montreal.
1978  B’nai B’rith, Toronto.
1976  Rural Centre, Mono Mills, Ontario.
1974  Exhibits in libraries and various student shows


PUBLIC COLLECTION

Thames Art Gallery Chatham, Ontario
Kunstmuseum Stadt, Bad Hersfeld, Hessen,Germany
Casa de la Cultura, Aguilas, Almeria, Spain
El Tercio, Ayuntamento Cuevas del Almanzora, Spain
Lambton Gallery, Sarnia, Ontario
El Centro Cultural Lorca, Murcia, Spain
The Learning Resource Centre, Toronto
Escuela de Marmol, Macael, Spain
Casey House, Toronto


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