Paul Laster reviews Fred Tomaselli's retrospective at The Brooklyn Museum:
A practitioner of psychedelic dreams, artist Fred Tomaselli turns mindscapes into visual landscapes. Layering print media, marijuana leaves, pills, and paint under layers of resin, Tomaselli constructs networks of awe-inspiring elements that come together to form a transcendental vision of parts of the universe. …
Creating a touchstone for important global issues — from the war in Afghanistan to the discovery of underwater uranium in Bolivia — Tomaselli turns our mediated, consumer-saturated world into a marvelous play land, where we can jump on a ride to the next realm.
(Image of Dead Eyed Bird Blast, by Fred Tomaselli, which includes hemp leaves, pills, photo collage, acrylic, and resin on wood panel.)
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