Xipe Tótec, 2010, LED neon flex, aluminum, and electrical hardware, Exterior of 24-story building, Commissioned by Tlatelolco University Cultural Center (CCUT), UNAM, Mexico City.
Thomas Glassford, Siphonophora (Installation view), 2016. Museo Universitario Del Chopo, Mexico DF
Aster 350 T12/5000K, 2001, Fluorescent light, acrylic, ballasts and wiring, 145 × 145 dia. in., in the permanent collection of Museum of Fine Arts Houston (MFAH).
Thomas Glassford, Yisus, 2018. Lacquer on MDF, 47 7/32 x 35 13/32 inches.
Thomas Glassford, Compound, 2018. Lacquer on MDF, 47 3/16 x 35 3/8 inches.
THOMAS GLASSFORD (b. 1963, USA/Lives in Mexico City)
"Fragmentation speaks more clearly to the realities of our lives than the false, flat image we are accustomed to seeing. There, everything is always backwards."
Thomas Glassford studied art at The University of Texas at Austin, where he received his BFA. He moved to Mexico City in 1990, and joined a young avant-garde of Mexican, European, and American artists living in the city. Since the early 1990s, Glassford has used everyday materials--ranging from gourds to broomsticks, anodized aluminum to melamine plates--to create architectural or installation-scale works. He transforms these materials into rhythmic and often abstract creations, reminiscent of Minimalist sculpture and Op Art paintings of the 1960s.
2018
Osculum, Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino, Houston, TX, USA
2017
Testigo/Witness: Popular Fiction and the Dismembered Object, Quint Gallery, San Diego, CA, USA
2016
Siphonophora, Museo Universitario del Chopo, México City, México
2015
Solar Plexus, Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA, USA
2014
Thomas Glassford: Afterglow, Arts Brookfield, Houston, TX, USA
Afterglow, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
2013
Afterglow, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2012
Thomas Glassford, Galeria Il Ponte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
2011
Pteridomania, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
2010
Xipe Totec, Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco, UNAM, México City, México
Afterglow, Museo Experimental El Eco, México City, México
2008
Implosion is Compulsory, Quint Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA, USA
Between Earth and Sky, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
2006
Cadáver Exquisito, Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Artes (MUCA), UNAM, México City, México
2004
Thomas Glassford, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX, USA
Pleasure Garden, Galería OMR, México City, México
Desdoblamientos, Galeria Principal de La Escuela de Artes, UAEMéx, Toluca, México
Thomas Glassford, Arcaute Arte Contemporaneo, Nuevo León, México
2003
Museo Carrillo Gil, México City, México
Event Horizon, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, México City, México
2002
Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX, USA
Stripes and Solids, Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA, USA
Fuente / Exhibition Agua, Wasser, Temple of San Agustín (Ex National Library), Mexico City, Mexico
2001
DESIRE, Galería OMR, México City, México
ASTER, La Torre de los Vientos, México City, México
2000
Fuente Parabólica, Museo de La Alhóndiga, Festival International Cervantino, Guanajuato, México
1998
Neoprene Dreams, Sala Diaz, San Antonio, TX, USA
1997
Diversiones, Galeria de Arte Contemporáneo, México City, México
1996
Autogol: Oaxaca, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, México
New Work, Milagros Contemporary Art, San Antonio, TX, USA
The Privilege to Contemplate the Theories of Black Holes, ExpoArte ’98, Guadalajara, Mexico
1995
Autogol Monterrey, Museo de Monterrey, México
1994
Autogol, Ex-Convento del Carmen, Guadalajara, México
1993
Natural Acts, Moody Gallery Houston, TX, USA
1992
Arteria, Curare: Espacio Crítico Para Las Artes, México City, México
1991
Laredo, Laredo Junior College Art Gallery, Texas, TX, USA
Hydraulics and Mechanics, N. No. O Gallery, Dallas, TX, USA
1990
Obra Nueva, Estudio Lic. Verdad, México City, México
1986
Drawings and Wall Pieces, Flood Gallery, Austin, TX, USA
Art Center/Instanbul, Borusan Center for Culture and Arts, Turkey
Associacao Beneficente Alzira Denise Hertzog da Silva, Brazil
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, USA
Bruce and Diane Halle Collection, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), Miami, FL, USA
Colección Valdemarín, Madrid, Spain
Collezione “La Gaia,” Italy
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, USA
Gelman Collection, Mexico
Jerry I. Speyer Collection
La Colección Jumex, México City, México
Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL, USA
Montblanc International Collection
Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Bajadoz, Spain
Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Artes (MUCA), México
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), Houston, TX, USA
Neeley Collection
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ, USA
Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN, USA
Televisa Collection, Mexico
The SPACE Collection, Irvine, CA, USA
The West Collection, Oaks, PA, USA
Vergel Foundation, New York, NY, USA
Thomas Glassford's public art commission, Xipe Totec, for the 100th anniversary of the National University of Mexico.
