Artist Presentation

The artists that we chose to present in our exhibition are Tom Repasky and Maurits Cornelis Escher. We decided to pick these artists because they both were surrealists who used different media from one another. We were interested in how both of them expressed twisted perspective views of the world. The theme centered on this idea of transforming things around us to make us look at things from a new angle.

Tom Repasky was born in 1949 in Ohio. While he was in his adolescence, he fell off of a cliff and experienced a change of perception in life. He started to see the world differently and used this as inspiration for his work once he became an artist several years later. He tried to emphasize the different psychological viewpoints of things. This was seen in his works: “Reflections” from 2008, “Life Is A Game” from 2009, “Look Out” from 2009, “Watching Them Selves” from 2010, and “The Watchers” from 2010. In 13 years he created more than 3,000 pieces.

M.C. Escher was born in 1898 in the Netherlands. He was very educated due to attending the Harlem School of Architecture and Decorative Arts and by living in Rome for 11 years. Escher drew a large amount of his inspiration from architecture school while playing with perspective and impossible spaces. Instead of trying to show the viewer a psychological viewpoint, M.C. Escher altered physical space to create different viewpoints. This was seen in his works: “Hand with Reflecting Sphere” from 1935, “Sky And Water I” from 1938, “Balcony” from 1945, “Puddle” from 1952, “Relativity” from 1953, and “Waterfall” from 1961.