Reclamation & Transformation: Three Self Taught Chicago Artists [Paperback]

Tom Patterson (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 104 pages
• Publisher: Terra Museum of Amer Art (April 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0932171079
• ISBN-13: 978-0932171078
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,867,978 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Tom Patterson is the Chief Security Officer (CSO) for MagTek, Inc., the leading transaction technology provider to the financial industry around the world. Immediately prior to joining MagTek as CSO, Tom founded a public/private security outreach in concert with the Obama administration called National Security Grid, that aims to better secure the 'critical million' small businesses across America through coordination with FBI and intelligence community resources. Tom has had a long career in security, having worked on security for a space shuttle flight (STS-37), the maiden launch of a nuclear aircraft carrier (CVN-73), built industry leading security products (Net/Assure, CyberGuard firewall, TradeWave PKI), worked with the White House in the Middle East, run Deloitte's security business in Europe, Middle East, and Africa, was CSO at America's largest R&D consortium (MCC), built a startup internet company (Command) to $50 million in revenue, and served as IBM's Chief Strategist for Electronic Commerce. Tom is also the author of Mapping Security, the corporate security sourcebook for today's global economy (Addison-Wesley).

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Reclamation and Transformation is the 104-page catalogue that accompanied a 1994 exhibition of three self-taught Chicago artists at the Terra Museum of American Art. In addition to residency status and lack of formal art school training, all three artists share the common denominator of creating their works from found materials. The best known artist is Gregory Warmack, better known by his pseudonym, Mr. Imagination. Mention of Warmack is usually accompanied by the legend that he turned to art after being shot and lapsing into a coma, where he had visions of himself in past lives as African kings. However, this biographical profile debunks that myth. (Although Warmack does say here that shortly before he was shot, he had a premonition of himself in a regal outfit with a crown.) Warmack's art ranges from sandstone carvings to bottle cap creations to discarded paintbrushes painted and molded to look like people with very tall crew cuts. Transplanted Buckeye Kevin Orth's section features the painted and decorated discarded bottles that comprise King Orthy's Cathedral of Dreams, as well as his wood assemblages and hubcap faces. David Philpot rounds out the trio, discussing his staffs carved from ailanthus trees, embellished with mirrors, glass eyes, cowry shells and inticate entwined snakes. Each artist receives 6-8 pages of biographical material, extensively quoting from interviews with the artists, written by exhibit curator Tom Patterson. The essays are followed by 10-14 pages of color photos of each artist's work. Essential to any fan of these artists, as well as a worthy addition to the growing field of outsider art.