Fred Tomaselli is an artist born in Santa Monica who is based out of New York City.

He’s had solo shows at the Metropolitan Museum, the Orange County Museum, James Cohan, the Brooklyn Museum, White Cube, The Rose Museum, the Albright-Knox, Site Santa Fe, the Whitney Museum and many others. He’s been included in group shows at the Aspen Art Museum, LAMOCA, the Whitney Biennial, the Berlin Biennale, and at MoMA just to name a few.

His work is in the collection of the Addison Gallery of American Art, the

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Cornell Fine Arts Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum, the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, and many others.

Brian stopped by Fred’s East Village studio to talk about perceptual portals, the James Turrell moment, escapist art and the seeing the Germs live and more.

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