Liliane Tomasko’s abstract paintings employ a distinctive, bold lyricism and assertive sense of colour. The artist begins her investigation of the human psyche in the domestic sphere, offering attentive studies of bedding and clothing, the intimate textures of our lives. Through the artist’s reflections, these prosaic materials open a gateway into the nocturnal realm of sleep and dreaming, articulating the creatively fertile space between ‘conscious’ and ‘unconscious’. Tomasko’s approach to abstraction is rooted, therefore, in the physical realm but ultimately transcends beyond it. Fusing material observation with intuition and association, the artist produces vigorous, imaginative expressions of familiar environments and psychological states. Intense colour, subtle tone, shadow, and painterly gesture allow space to come in and out of focus, oscillating between clarity and obscurity and emulating the atmospheric power of dreams and memories.
Liliane Tomasko lives and works in London.
Liliane Tomasko
Portrait of the Self (camouflaged), 2023
acrylic and acrylic spray on aluminium
193 x 177.8 cm / 76 x 70 in
Liliane Tomasko
Portrait of the Self (hiding behind a cloud of magenta) 2022
acrylic and acrylic spray on linen
142.2 x 127 cm / 56 x 50 in
Liliane Tomasko
Portrait of the Self (playing hide and seek), 2022
acrylic and acrylic spray on linen
193 x 177.8 cm / 76 x 70 in
Liliane Tomasko
Portrait of the Self (leaving nothing behind), 2022
acrylic and acrylic spray on aluminum
152.4 x 139.7 cm / 60 x 55 in
Liliane Tomasko
Loosening the Bind, 2019-21
acrylic on linen
121.9 x 106.7 x 6.4 cm / 48 x 42 x 2.5 in
Liliane Tomasko
Hold on to Yourself: 6/22/2020, 2020
acrylic and acrylic spray on linen
160.02 x 160.02 cm / 63 x 63 in
Liliane Tomasko
Hold on to Yourself: 3/26/2020, 2020
acrylic on linen
172.7 x 157.5 cm / 68 x 62 in
Liliane Tomasko
Morpheus, 2018
Acrylic and acrylic spray on linen
193 x 177.8 cm / 76 x 70 in
Liliane Tomasko
Sleepwalker, 2018
acrylic and acrylic spray on linen
172.7 x 157.5 cm / 68 x 62 in
Liliane Tomasko
a dream of: A COIL THAT UNFURLED, 2018
acrylic and acrylic spray on linen
193 x 177.8 cm / 76 x 70 in
Liliane Tomasko
root of all things, 2018
acrylic and acrylic spray on linen
50.8 x 50.8 cm / 20 x 20 in
Liliane Tomasko
Decipherous, 2018
acrylic and acrylic spray on linen
193 x 177.8 cm / 76 x 70 in
Collection of Christen Sveaas Art Collection
Liliane Tomasko
a dream of: A RED THREAD, 2018
acrylic and acrylic spray on linen
215.9 x 190.5 cm / 85 x 75 in
Liliane Tomasko
apparition, 2018
acrylic and acrylic spray on linen
80 x 70 cm / 31.5 x 27.6 in
Liliane Tomasko
Untitled, 2018
acrylic and acrylic spray on linen
208.3 x 193 cm / 82 x 76 in
Liliane Tomasko
Tangled up with Blue, 2015
oil on linen
142.2 x 127 cm / 56 x 50 in
Liliane Tomasko
Yellow Leaning on Flimsy Greens, 2015
oil on linen
142.2 x 127 cm / 56 x 50 in
Liliane Tomasko
Untitled, 2015
oil on linen
121.9 x 106.7 cm / 48 x 42 in
Current and forthcoming exhibitions include a solo exhibition at the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (30 November 2023 – 10 March 2024); Austria–Germany Painting 1970 to 2020, Albertina Modern, Vienna (6 September 2023 – 21 January 2024); Risky Business, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles (30 March – 4 May 2024); and solo shows at Bechter Kastowsky, Vienna (May 2024) and Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (September 2024). Selected solo exhibitions include Name me not, CAB Burgos, Spain (2023); S P E L L O F T H E W O O D, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda; Evening Wind, Edward Hopper House, Nyack, New York, USA (both 2022); Morpheus, Kunstmuseum Kloster unser lieben Frauen Magdeburg, Germany (2021); dark goes lightly, Château la Coste, France (2019); Caja de sueños, Museo MATE, Lima, Peru; 12 nights x dreams, ROCA Rockland Center for the Arts, New York, USA (both 2018); Kunstwerk, a two-person exhibition with Sean Scully, Sammlung Klein, Germany (2017); Mother-Matrix-Matter, Lowe Art Museum, Miami, USA; In Visible World, Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona, USA and dusk at dawn, Kunstalle Rostock, Germany (all 2015). Tomasko’s work is represented in the public collections of The Albertina, Vienna; Hilti Art Foundation, Liechtenstein; Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; Lowe Art Museum, Miami; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich; Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin and Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf.
Liliane Tomasko
EVENING WIND, 2022
Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center, Nyack, USA
Photo: Elisabeth Bernstein
Liliane Tomasko
Morpheus, 2021 - 2022
Kunstmuseum Kloster unser lieben Frauen Magdeburg, Germany
Liliane Tomasko
From the real, 2021
Newlands House Gallery, Petworth, West Sussex, UK
Photo: Barney Hindle
Liliane Tomasko
dark goes lightly, 2019
Château la Coste, France
Liliane Tomasko
Caja de sueños, 2018
MATE Lab, Museo MATE, Lima, Peru
Liliane Tomasko
Abstract Painting Now!, 2017
Kunsthalle Krems, Austria
Liliane Tomasko
Sense, 2015
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Liliane Tomasko
In Visible World, 2015
Phoenix Art Museum, USA
Liliane Tomasko
Luminous Matter, 2011
IVAM, Valencia, Spain
Liliane Tomasko is the subject of a solo exhibition in The Douglas Hyde's Gallery 2, part of the ongoing series The Artist's Eye.
Liliane Tomasko's painting PORTRAIT OF THE SELF (PLAYING HIDE AND SEEK) has been selected by Howard Rachofsky for the OWNitNOW section of the fundraiser auction TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art.
Liliane Tomasko has three large paintings in the exhibition Austria-Germany Painting 1970 to 2020 at Vienna's Albertina Modern.
Liliane Tomasko is interviewed by Phong H. Bui for the cover story of The Brooklyn Rail April 2023.
Liliane Tomasko will appear in conversation with Diana Copperwhite as part of Highlanes Gallery's ongoing 'Painter to Painter' series of talks.
Name Me Not, a solo exhibition of recent paintings by Liliane Tomasko, will open in February at El Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Burgos, Burgos, Spain.
For this solo exhibition, Liliane Tomasko presents two new large, frieze-like wall paintings, S P E L L and W O O D, made specifically for the unique space of Highlanes, together with a series of new smaller oil-based works on paper, a floor work entitled Magic Carpet, made of wool and fabric, from 2016, and two large works on linen from 2016 and 2018.
Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center announces a new exhibition ‘Evening Wind’ by contemporary painter Liliane Tomasko.
Sean Scully and Liliane Tomasko are included in 'Andy Warhol to Cecily Brown from the Collections of the Albertina Museum'.
'Morpheus' brings together recent work by Liliane Tomasko at the Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen Magdeburg, Germany.
From The Real: Liliane Tomasko and Sean Scully is an exhibition of two painting shows in one, presenting the artists' work side by side at Newlands House Gallery, Petworth, England.
