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Tom Baril - After Hopper (Ice)
Tom Baril
After Hopper (Ice)
$5,500
Tom Baril - Artist's Model, Industrial Park, NJ
Tom Baril
Artist's Model, Industrial Park, NJ
$5,500
Tom Baril - Ask For Wildroot. NYC
Tom Baril
Ask For Wildroot. NYC
$4,000
Tom Baril - Beach Bungalows #2, Rockaway, NY
Tom Baril
Beach Bungalows #2, Rockaway, NY
$4,000
Tom Baril - Bowling,  Webster, MA
Tom Baril
Bowling, Webster, MA
$5,500
Tom Baril - Brooklyn (N 6th St.), NY
Tom Baril
Brooklyn (N 6th St.), NY
$6,500
Tom Baril - Car Roof - Brick Wall, NY
Tom Baril
Car Roof - Brick Wall, NY
$5,500
Tom Baril - Coney Island (ice cream)
Tom Baril
Coney Island (ice cream)
$5,500
Tom Baril - Corner of Wall, Queens, NY
Tom Baril
Corner of Wall, Queens, NY
$6,500
Tom Baril - Courthouse, 24th Street, New York City
Tom Baril
Courthouse, 24th Street, New York City
$5,500
Tom Baril - Drive-In, MA
Tom Baril
Drive-In, MA
$5,500
Tom Baril - Dutch Masters, NY
Tom Baril
Dutch Masters, NY
$5,500

After graduating from New York's School of Visual Arts in 1980 with a BA in photography, Baril served as Robert Mapplethorpe's exclusive print maker. Since then Baril has distanced himself from the Mapplethorpe work and has enjoyed a solo career by bringing to us something uniquely his own-- stunning imagery from both behind the camera and out of the darkroom.

In the last 35 years, printmaking is not all that Tom Baril has mastered. He embraces every nuance of his medium. Whether it is 4 x 5 Polaroid pinhole or 8 x 10 collodion wet-plate, Baril manages to astonish us with technically perfect and pure prints. Baril's studies include urban architecture, minimalist seascapes and meticulously detailed botanicals and still lifes.


In the words of one commentator, Baril's "exquisitely imagined and powerfully rendered" images are "…clearly founded upon the photographic masters of the past. But his tones and techniques demonstrate a contemporary vision, offering an elegant synthesis of artistic tradition and current aesthetics." In other words, the effect achieved in Baril's work is "both classic and contemporary."

Tom Baril's work has been the subject of two monographs, the highly acclaimed sold out self-titled book published by 4AD in 1997, and Botanica published by Arena Editions in 1999. His work has been featured in numerous publications, and is in prestigious collections, both public and private, including: The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Center for Creative Photography, the George Eastman House, Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum, The Fogg Museum at Harvard University, the Polaroid Collection and the Elton John Collection.

Despite foreshadowing some of his later photographs, Baril's early work has never been publicly exhibited prior to now and is largely limited to two bodies of work: "The American Diner" and "A Sense of Place". The vintage images from the 1977-1986 period making up these two collections are quite rare, usually existing in less than a handful of prints, and often in only one to three vintage examples. And all are stunningly printed.

The latter series (A Sense of Place) bears some similarity to work during the same period by Lee Fiedlander, Lewis Baltz and Robert Adams, but with Baril's distinctive twist and stunning prints. These hauntingly empty, largely urban landscapes possess a strange power to visually and viscerally engage the viewer. They resemble artifacts of some long-dead civilization.

We are the exclusive representative for this important work by Tom Baril.

Tom Baril's Vintage Prints: A Sense of Place
About This Exhibit
Image List

Exhibited and Sold By
Contemporary Works / Vintage Works, Ltd.

258 Inverness Circle
Chalfont, Pennsylvania   18914   USA

Contact Alex Novak and Marthe Smith

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