Tom Slaughter was born in New York City in 1955 and has since had more than 30 solo exhibitions in New York, LA, Miami, Vancouver, Germany, and Japan. He has worked as a printmaker in collaboration with Durham Press for 20 years, and his editions are included in the collections of MoMA and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
"New York City Watertowers" features the silhouetted cityscape of downtown New York. In this graphic pattern, Tom Slaughter translates his signature images to designer wallpaper available in 3 colors.
The graphic nature of his work appeals to me in that it creates a seemingly simple repeatable pattern. However, upon closer inspection, Slaughter uses black and white to subtly play with the background/foreground and light/shadow relationships in this design.
I like the graphic nature of this design - the positive and negative space would allow it to create stripes with vertical repetition (flipping image horizontally) while at the same time creating a landscape with horizontal repetition. I wonder if this would create sort of a checkerboard pattern?
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