Light Spots by Tom Salvatore Fricano
Light Spots
Tom Salvatore Fricano
Title
Light Spots
Artist
Tom Salvatore Fricano
1930 - PRESENT (biography)Year
1970
Technique
assemblagraph with embossing
Image Size
30 x 22 3/8" image & paper
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
3 of 5
Annotations
titled, lower left; blind emboss in lower left
Reference
Paper
cream wove Arches
State
published
Publisher
Inventory ID
15151
Price
$500.00
Description
A descending trail of ephemeral spots, as if seen from a fast moving vehicle or captured with a camera in the rain, travels along beams of light in Tom S. Fricano’s “Light Spots,” a three dimensional, large format “assemblagraph” with embossing.
An artist whose works spanned several styles with roots in Abstract Expressionism, this image’s power lies in Fricano’s ability to separate the soft tones into their precise, individual shapes, sending them darting across the sheet in an evocative, energetic composition. Fricano experimented with Op Art at its height in the 1970s, much like his contemporaries Richard Anuszkiewicz and Victor Vasarely.