Tomas Lasansky
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| Tomas Lasansky | |
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| Born | Tomás Lasansky Iowa City, Iowa |
| Education | University of Iowa |
| Known for | Printmaking, drawing, painting |
| Spouse(s) | Charlie Emmert Lasansky |
Tomás Lasansky is an American painter, printmaker, and draftsman living in Iowa City, Iowa. He makes large-scale portraits of important people.
Biography
Tomás Lasansky was born and raised in Iowa City, Iowa. He is the youngest of six children in an artistic family.[citation needed] He became interested in drawing and ceramics as a child.[1] His father Mauricio Lasansky taught him standard printmaking techniques such as hard- and soft-ground etching, engraving, aquatint, scraping and burnishing, and in the early 1970s he began working as his father's printing assistant.[2] When Tomás turned eighteen he established his own studio in downtown Iowa City and purchased his first printing press. He enrolled briefly in a ceramics program at Alfred University in New York, and then attended the University of Iowa, where his father taught printmaking. In the mid-1980s Tomás met Donita "Charlie" Ann Emmert, an Iowa-born artist who would later become his wife. The work of both is mostly figurative; both work in portraiture, and sometimes portray the same subject.[3]
Ink splatter paintings
Lasansky uses stencils to limit the area worked on in his ink splatter paintings.[4]
Notes
- ↑ Rory Lasansky, A Son's Perspective, in Tomás Lasansky: Icons and Muses (Iowa City, IA: 4PeaksPress, 2010), 25.
- ↑ Charles R. Loving, "Tomás Lasansky," in Mauricio and Tomás Lasansky: Father and Son (South Bend, IN: Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, 2014), 12.
- ↑ Lasansky, A Son's Perspective, 31.
- ↑ Lasansky, A Son's Perspective, 31.
Bibliography
- Czestochowski, Joseph, Lasansky, Rory, and Webster, William. Tomás Lasansky: Icons and Muses. Iowa City, IA: 4PeaksPress, 2010. ISBN 978-0-9825835-2-4
- Lasansky, Phil and Loving, Charles, R. Mauricio and Tomás Lasansky: Father And Son. South Bend, IN: Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, 2014.
