Adrift II by Thomas Jewell-Vitale

This abstract oil, acrylic and wax painting on paper was handmade by Thomas Jewell-Vitale of Dubuque, Iowa.

The image size is 14.25” x 16.75” and the frame is 22.25” x 26.25”. The piece is finished with glass, and a black metal frame.

Thomas Jewell-Vitale is an artist who lives and works in Iowa where he is a Professor of Art at Loras College in Dubuque.

“In my paintings, the edges of shapes yield easily to the spaces around them. They create a variety of changing allegiances, sometimes simultaneously becoming one thing, sometimes another. Like sleight of hand, shapes live hiding, nestling, drifting, absorbed, material and immaterial. In these paintings, the images often have no clean cut boundaries and I came to realize that by avoiding them and by simulating light, intuitively, this is how I have tried to replicate mystery”.

Find more of Tom's work here.