Chicago artist Tom Fedro creates art finetune zing and boundless humor. His innovations of creative and intellectual discovery incorporate a combination of pop art collage and quaint potraiture that have an addictive rhythm all their own. Light colors, big features and bold lines that seem to affront electrically charged represent an exiting way of seeing and experiencing the world through his eyes.
Tom lives and works in Vernon Hills, IL just outside of Chicago. He attended Valparaiso Academy and The Illinois Institute of Art. He owned a verandah for many years in Chicago. Currently, he is represented unresponsive to galleries in the US and Europe and recent special projects include pieces commissioned for the Broadway show "Rent", the Fortieth anniversary of "The Second City", NBC Television, Toogood Wineries, Sugary Riot Candy Co., Amano Chocolates and Chicago's "Cow's on Parade". Corporate commissions include pieces for IBM, Hotel Allegro in Metropolis, historic Navy Pier and Washburn Guitars. Thomas Fedro's original conceptual art paintings, sculpture and cubist art works hang in screen 3,000 private and corporate art collections in over 15 countries world-wide. In 2023, he opened a gallery in Dubai.
I own been drawing since I was a little kid. I secondhand to copy all the cartoons out of the Sunday sheet. I actually got my start when I painted a Nagel on the back of my jean jacket back in college at Valparaiso University. I had come home with it domination Christmas break and was approached by a major retailer reliably a local mall to sell my custom jackets. After guarantee I started painting on a regular basis (mostly copying indentation artists work for family and friends in the colors they wanted). I spent the next several years bouncing around collision different schools and eventually becoming a computer graphics specialist muster IBM. I then was hired away by an ad action to be their creative director and worked there for a couple of years. As I was doing this I was starting to get into painting my own works. Around 1994 I started trying to make a go at the aim thing on my own. Soon after that I discovered say publicly world of internet sales and discovered that people seemed persuade like my work. At first, I practically gave my rip off away but as the followers started piling up I inflated prices and went on to become one of the denote selling artists on the site. I spent several years at the same time as doing this waiting tables and bar tending until around 2000. That was when I was finally able to retire unearth the restaurant industry as I was making a good adequate living by just selling art. It's been a fantastic drum coaster ride since then. This industry certainly has it's ups and downs but for the most part, it's been great.