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)
"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.
2016 | Siphonophora, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico |
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, Mexico City, Mexico |
| Afterglow, Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City, Mexico |
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, Mexico City, Mexico |
2004 | Thomas Glassford, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX, USA |
| Pleasure Garden, Galería OMR, Mexico City, Mexico |
| Desdoblamientos, Galeria Principal de La Escuela de Artes. UAEMéx, Toluca, Mexico |
| Thomas Glassford, Arcaute Arte Contemporaneo, Nuevo León, Mexico |
2003 | Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico |
| Event Horizon, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, Mexico |
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, Mexico City, Mexico |
| ASTER, La Torre de los Vientos, Mexico City, Mexico |
2000
| Fuente Parabólica, Museo de La Alhóndiga, Festival International Cervantino, Guanajuato, Mexico |
1998 | Neoprene Dreams, Sala Diaz, San Antonio, TX, USA |
1997 | Diversiones, Galeria de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico |
1996 | Autogol: Oaxaca, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Mexico |
| 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, Mexico |
1994 | Autogol, Ex-Convento del Carmen, Guadalajara, Mexico |
1993 | Natural Acts, Moody Gallery Houston, TX, USA |
1992 | Arteria, Curare: Espacio Crítico Para Las Artes, Mexico City, Mexico |
1991 | Laredo, Laredo Junior College Art Gallery, Texas |
| Hydraulics and Mechanics, N. No. O Gallery, Dallas, TX, USA |
1990 | Obra Nueva, Estudio Lic. Verdad, Mexico City, Mexico |
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
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, Mexico City, Mexico
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), Mexico
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
Vergel Foundation, New York, NY, USA
The SPACE Collection, Irvine, CA
The West Collection, Oaks, PA
Thomas Glassford's public art commission, Xipe Totec, for the 100th anniversary of the National University of Mexico.
