About Tom Irizarry Studio
""Persistence is your greatest weapon." - Quentin Crisp My studio is a laboratory of substances - oils, pigments, resins and inks. The possibility of making a work of art that radiates so strongly that it cannot be unseen or unheard, drives me. This drive enables me to heighten my observation. I put a body on an invisible entity. The pictures are representational, however, it is the materials themselves - paint and oil, that forms a communication to the viewer. The substances change form throughout the process. Making a painting is like a symphony, as the many par...Read More
Featured Pieces
New York City, view from Brooklyn
By Tom Irizarry Studio
Located in Chicago, IL
Looking northeast from downtown Brooklyn, Manhattan can be seen at sunset, glowing in saturated red and yellow, here depicted with vermillion and lead-tin orange. Lapis lazuli blue l...
Category
2010s Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Pigment, Oil
Midnight Sun Lofoton, Norway
By Tom Irizarry Studio
Located in Chicago, IL
In northern Norway the midnight sun sets over the stillness of a strange dusk that will rise again in moments. Surrounded by mysterious dark mountains and unbelievable views of the a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Pigment
Brooklyn Blaze 1986
By Tom Irizarry Studio
Located in Chicago, IL
Back in the day, the glorious 1980's was a time of unequaled freedom, that we once took for granted. This picture captures the sky ablaze of a hot summer day - sunset over Downtown B...
Category
2010s Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Pigment
County Mayo Beach
By Tom Irizarry Studio
Located in Chicago, IL
This painting is one of the finest examples of Tom's painting style and materials. Color and paint burst across the canvas, imbued with movement of clouds, sun and water. From a distant shore, County Mayo...
Category
2010s Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Pigment
Brooklyn 1990
By Tom Irizarry Studio
Located in Chicago, IL
One of the tallest buildings in Brooklyn was The Williamsburg Savings Bank. I was always fond of this beautiful bank adorned in blue and multi colored tiles in it's lavish hallway....
Category
2010s Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Pigment
County Mayo January Sunset
By Tom Irizarry Studio
Located in Chicago, IL
The simplicity of the mountains, with water and bright sky, caught my attention in this scene.
Bits of land in the foreground, highlighted by mirror- like reflections, create a plea...
Category
2010s Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Pigment
County Mayo Sunset
By Tom Irizarry Studio
Located in Chicago, IL
County Mayo Ireland is a very special place. My dear old friend Grace ended up settling here with her husband. Hers is a story of romance, love, illness, ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Yearning
By Tom Irizarry Studio
Located in Chicago, IL
Inspired by European landscape painting of another era, the artist finds intimacy in an unexpected place.
The changeable moon sends forth steady reverberating yellow light with th...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Pigment
The Golden Echo NYC
By Tom Irizarry Studio
Located in Chicago, IL
In this sunset picture of New York City, the artist reaches deep within himself to match the heartfelt colors of a glorious glimmering sky bathing in sweet deep warm rays of brilliant yellow echoing its golden cry across the heavens, capturing groups of clouds while hoovering over the magnificent city of New York whose cold structures succumb to redemptive reflections of glory beyond our dreams, echoing never ending warm light that radiates the soul and takes us to a place reminiscent of one of the greatest cities of all time, The New Jerusalem...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Pigment
bejeweled
By Tom Irizarry Studio
Located in Chicago, IL
An oil painting of an exquisite gold sewn bracelet featuring extravagant materials in content and paint - pearls, ruby, citron and aquamarine, gold thread, and genuine mineral pigmen...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Pigment
Brooklyn Blue Sky
By Tom Irizarry Studio
Located in Chicago, IL
One calm evening in Brooklyn. One timeless painting.
This scene captures the downtown Brooklyn skyline. A blue sky swirls around the last hurrah of daylight.
It soothes the menacing drama of the storm cloud.
Brooklyn Blue Sky...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Pigment
The Battle
By Tom Irizarry Studio
Located in Chicago, IL
It is only after we emerged from the horrible Pandemic, that we realized what a battle it was for simple daily living. Tom created The Battle a few years into the Pandemic.
The pict...
Category
2010s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Pigment, Rag Paper, Oil
