Artist Tom Christopher’s Sketchbook Walk-Through
One of the artists shown at Art Basel in America at Miami Beach last week was Tom Christopher. In this video sequence, Christopher takes us through his painterly process of sketching New York City.
Tom Christopher is not even from New York, which makes him the best kind of New Yorker. He greets the city, not with a grimace but with a grin.
In addition to being on the walls at Art Basel Miami, Christopher’s paintings hang in galleries in Paris and Tokyo. You can also spot them inside New York’s City Hall, the New York City Historical Society, and The Museum of The City of New York. Once upon a time, his thirty-foot by 230-foot mural of Timsd Square (TSQ) was painted on construction panels across the street from the entry to the Ed Sullivan Theater: a visual energy drink for stars exiting their limos on their way into “The David Letterman Show.”
Memories.
In 2018, window shoppers stood entranced by Christopher’s pop-up installation in TSQ coupled with fellow artist Andy Hammerstein, grandson of Broadway lyricist Oscar…
