Tom Paiement

Tone Scale, Mixed media and LED, $3,800 — *Tone Scale,* Mixed media and LED, $3,800

Tom Paiement is a long-standing member in the stable of artists represented by Greenhut Galleries. His personal and artistic curiosity, coupled with backgrounds in mechanical engineering, and music, and certainly visual art -- beginning with a strong printmaking background studying under deceased maestro Mauricio Lasansky, has allowed him to diligently pursue his unique muse in a variety of individual ways.

The works exhibited here represent two separate series of works that have occupied his time over the years. In the case of Back Bay, the use of LEDs in his work has allowed him to pursue the combination of actual, electric light paired with the implied light within his landscape-based subject matter, in this case the Back Cove area of Portland.

His ‘Tone Scale’ series, an extension of his earlier, music-based ‘Fret’ series, also combines LEDs, but with another motif in mind -- the more emotional nature of particular labels and phrases which he finds mysterious and compelling. He exploits these emotion-laden terms with specific cycling rhythms of LEDs presented in mathematically organized format through intensive and imaginative electrical engineering with collaborator Guy Marsden. A look ‘behind the curtain’ – the reverse side of these works – reveals how the magic happens in complicated arrays of wiring and science. Inventive, artfully powerful, and emotionally relevant.

Born
Brunswick, ME

Education
University of Maine, B.S., 1965
University of Iowa, M.A., 1982
University of Iowa, M.F.A., 1984

Publications

2010 - Tom Paiement: Entropy’s Garden, Art New England, June/July/August

2010 - More Than Pretty, Artscope Magazine, May/June

2010 - Portland Maine Sunday Telegram, February

2008 - Art, Angst Intersect, Portland Maine Sunday Telegram, April 27

2005 - Portland Maine Sunday Telegram, October

2001 - Portland Maine Sunday Telegram, July 15

2000 - Boston Globe, July 13

2000 - Boston Sunday Herald, July 16

2000 - The Beacon Hill/Back Bay Chronicle, June 30

2000 - The Times Record, July 20

1999 - Portland Maine Sunday Telegram, May 16

Solo Exhibitions

2018, 2016, 2014, 2010, 2008, 2005, 2003, 2001, 1999 - Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME
2003, 2001, 2000 - Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
1996 - Kristina’s, Bath, ME
1992 - Friede and Strauss Gallery, Livermore Falls, ME
1990 - Community Art Gallery, Livermore Falls, ME
1988 - University of Maine at Machias, Machias, ME
1987 - O’Farrell Gallery, Brunswick, ME
1986 - Hamline Gallery, Hamline University, St. Paul, MN
1985 - Treat Gallery, Bates College, Lewsiton, ME
1984 - Drewelowe Gallery, Iowa City, IA
1982 - The Mitzi Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA