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For more than 45 years, Tom Palmore has painted captivating portraits of animals that blend the provocative and the surreal through characteristic wit and exquisite detail. Painted with incredible, ultra-fine brushwork, his animals, birds, and other creatures seem to pause from their daily lives to act as models for Palmore, posed theatrically in front of backdrops ranging from Ancient Mayan relief carvings to the curtains at the Santa Fe Opera.
Widely regarded for his technical ability and striking subject matter-Spanish bulls, tropical birds, panda bears, flamingoes, and more-Palmore’s art playfully upends the traditions of portraiture. Though posed within unfamiliar, artificial settings, his animal subjects remain surrounded by imagery or patterning that links them through memory, association, or perhaps even their own sense of the familiar. Palmore’s backdrops, which reference everything from studio-portrait photography to the history of art around the world, evoke a sense of magical realism and often lend his canvases a narrative or theatrical quality.
While the traditions of portraiture historically served a variety of social, cultural, and even political functions, Palmore builds on these presuppositions zby activating his viewers’ sense of irony. Invoking various points of reference across history, art, and ecology, his art blurs the boundaries between photorealism and the absurd, art and artifice, human and animal. Palmore also invites us to view each of his subjects as individuals with discernable personalities rather than as anonymous creatures. Rendering his bears, hummingbirds, tigers, and horses with a sense of nobility, dignity, and honor, Palmore reminds his audience that these remarkable creatures can be regarded as partners alongside their human counterparts.
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