Tom Lohre Melted Oil Pastel Painting "Jesus"

Item Details

Tom Lohre (Cincinnati, Ohio; 20th/21st century)
Jesus
Melted oil pastel on aluminum
Signed to lower right

Per the artist: this portrait materialized by the use of ‘face reading’, a traditional Chinese medicinal technique. Additional information about this painting and the artist are included in a paper sleeve to the verso.

Lohre’s “blob” paintings are created by melting carefully selected colors of oil pastels onto a heated aluminum surface, their execution guided by a pixelated photograph in a manner similar to that which is carried out by the painting machine invented by Lohre using Lego’s Mindstorm Invention System in 2003. This method of painting claims to ‘make the most of the least.’ Lohre attests to be the first to have ever painted a spaceship from life and to have painted the eruption of Mt. Saint Helens from life.

Condition

- light wear to frame.

Dimensions

- painting measures 12″ × 16″.

Item #

ITMG421547