Bio:

Tom Crawford explores alternative conceptualizations of landscape art, mostly viewed from an aerial perspective.  In his ongoing project, Overlooked, he rearranges satellite photos of vast residential and industrial settings with Photoshop to create entirely new urban landscapes.  Many are overlaid with enlarged and carefully camouflaged hand tools that blend in with the vast urban settings below.  By juxtaposing hand tools with housing developments and industrial parks, his artwork connects urban landscapes with hammers, saws, and shovels once used to make them.  

Prints from his earlier Under Construction Project, which mostly present satellite photos of residential communities, are all manually folded into evenly distributed zig-zag ridges. When seen from different vantage points, these accordion prints yield dynamic changes in visual effects.  

His USGS Map Project uses historical contour maps to make landscapes of great geological monuments in Utah and Arizona, major waterways in Indiana and Ohio, and great urban centers like Portland.  Presented in vertical panels, these landscapes display topographic data, exquisite pen-and-ink drawings, and tableaus of unexpected shapes all at the same time.

By blurring boundaries between landscape photography, topography, urban design, and abstract art, Crawford reimagines how landscapes can be seen as an art form.

His landscapes have been shown at the Ogden Museum in New Orleans, LA, Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis, MA, and Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts in Providence, RI.  His works have been in juried group exhibitions in New York, Boston, Washington, Pittsburgh, Dallas, St. Louis, Kansas City, Portland, and the San Francisco Bay Area.  In addition to his art practice, Crawford has a PhD in clinical psychology from Columbia University.  He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.