TOM ORR

Tom Orr received his BFA in Sculpture at Rhode Island School of Design in 1973. He has exhibited extensively during his career both in the United States and in Japan. His site-specific works have been installed in places ranging from John Michael Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, to the 21^st Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture in Ube Japan. The many collections in which he is represented include the Foundation of Culture in Osaka, Japan, The El Paso Museum in Texas and the Utsukushi-Ga-Hara Open-Air Museum in Nagano, Japan.  Among his public art projects are two large-scale wall installations in the international terminal at the Dallas Ft. Worth Airport and Intersected Passage, a large-scale sculpture at Love Field Airport. In 2011 Orr was awarded a Pollack Krasner Foundation Grant.  Orr and fellow artist Frances Bagley designed the sets and costumes for the Dallas Opera’s production of Verdi’s Nabucco, which celebrated the Opera’s 50^th anniversary season in November 2006.  This project was followed by an invitation from The Dallas Museum of Art to create a museum installation based on their set designs from the opera for the exhibition Performance/Art.

STATEMENT

My work exists in the space between painting and sculpture.  By intuitively placing, leaning and layering shape, color, shadow and light, I am looking for that moment when thought leaves the object or image and concentrates on the idea.