Light Spots

Tom Salvatore Fricano

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.