DVAA Member since 2022
Tom Sonnenberg
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About:
Tom Sonnenberg is a painter, sculptor and printmaker. He graduated with a degree in art from the University of Wisconsin and a graduate degree from the University of Delaware, where he majored in painting. He has had solo shows at the William Way Community Center, Philadelphia Art Alliance, and the Academy of Natural Sciences and the Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts. Past gallery associations include the Janet Fleisher Gallery and Richard Rosenfeld in Philadelphia and Cavin-Morris and Civilization in New York City. Throughout the 80s and 90's, he received many community arts grants to create murals and mosaics in public spaces. In 2001, Tom had a fellowship at the International Center for the Study of Mosaics in Ravenna.
Tom Sonnenberg was a teacher for many years.
Artist Statement:
Much of my inspiration comes from art history and working at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the University Museum of Archeology and Anthropology. I am interested in personal mythology and the role of the hero in traditional mythologies. I want to celebrate queer identities and subvert iconic masculine figures in art. Also. I just really like beauty.
I have worked with cheap, and discarded materials like eggshells and sawdust, for many years. I work between different processes because I like the physicality and limitations of each.
