THOMAS BUILDMORE -Thomas Buildmore received his diploma from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 2004. Since then, Buildmore has taken part in and/or curated many fine art installations in a variety of arenas, receiving acclaim from publications such as The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, The New York Daily News, And the Philadelphia Inquirer. In 2007 Buildmore established Overkill Studio in South Boston, Massachusetts. In 2008, Overkill Studio relocated to Philadelphia. In 2010 Thomas Buildmore co-founded Stupideasy Studio in Old City Philadelphia with fellow Artist/Photographer Dan King.
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2013 “Animal Mother” Lot F Gallery, Boston MA
2013 “Detail” Woodward Galley, New York NY
2013 “Born Again” Calico Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2012 “Summer Selections” Woodward Gallery, New York NY
2012 “Paint it Now Philadelphia” Space 1026, Philadelphia PA
2012 “Misappropriation” Lot F Gallery, Boston MA
2011 “Space Savers Project”, Philadelphia PA
2011 “Clandestine Therapy” Slingluff Gallery, Philadelphia PA
2011 “Heat Beat’n” Pandemic Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2011 “Paint it Now Brooklyn” Fowler arts collective, Brooklyn NY
2010 “Shock Therapy” Pandemic Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2010 “Grew Up and Blew Up” Salt Gallery, Philadelphia PA
2010 “Paint it Now II” The Distillery Gallery, Boston, MA
2010 “Gone Printin” Projects Gallery Philadelphia PA
2009 “Pandemic 37″ Pandemic Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2009 “Semiopticon,” Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
Black on White painted installation dubbed “one of the most engaging, memorable shows this gallery has ever seen.”
Presented, Conceived, and Produced by Overkill Studios
2009 “Great Outdoors,” artBREAK Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2009 “Work to Do,” 112 Green Street (formerly 112 workshop), Manhattan, NY
2009 “Cut Copy” T&P Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
2009 “Artageddon,” The Distillery Gallery, Boston, MA
Work sold in a juried group show that collected “artists from Boston and beyond who are moving forward in their careers
regardless of a lack of gallery representation. Embracing alternative venues, social networks street campaigns, and other
creative outlets for their work, these artists are helping to shape the future of art commerce.”
SOURCE: www.distilleryboston.com
2007-09 “The Wall at Central,” Central Square, Cambridge, MA
Participated in group painting festivities on three occasions.
Managed and Co-Curated by Overkill Studio Co-Founder Thomas Buildmore, the Wall at Central is an ongoing and
ever-changing project. The Phoenix included the “eclectic and impressive art installation combining posters, painting,
graffiti, stencils, and stickers” as a “Best Of” for Boston in 2008. SOURCE: thephoenix.com/theBest/Boston/2008
2009 “Fragments,” D.D.R. Project, Los Angeles, CA
2009 “Mom & Popism,” Gawker Media Headquarters, New York, NY
Participated with other prominent artists in a traveling exhibition originally installed on a rooftop in Manhattan. Reviewed in
Wallpaper* Magazine, the installation “highlights the changing face of New York City in a unique symbiosis of street art
and photography.”SOURCE: www.wallpaper.com/ar
2009 “Devastate your Real Estate,” Fourth Wall Project, Boston, MA
2008 “Paint it Now, ” The Distillery Gallery, Boston, MA
Co-curated and promoted, and painted installation for group show. Included were “individual works from affiliated
artists” and “two group walls painted in black and white, a visual communication between friends, blending styles into
a large-scale “diagram.”
SOURCE: www.weeklydig.co
2008 “Writer’s Strike,” Lott Gallery, Chelsea, NY
EDUCATION
2004 School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA), Boston, MA
LINKS
- AREVOLT
- CHRIS M CLARK.COM
- DAN KING PHOTOGRAPHY
- DARKCLOUDS
- DELOVATE.COM
- DISTILLERY GALLERY
- DRUNKENFIST.COM
- DUKSAUCE.COM
- EL CELSO.COM
- ERS DESIGNS.
- FIFTYONEFIFTYONE
- FOLLOW BUILDMORE ON FLICKR
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- IDEO
- JESSICA HESS.COM
- KNGEE BLOG
- KRUDCO
- PANDEMIC GALLERY
- PROJECTS GALLERY
- ROPE-A-DOPE PRESS
- SALT GALLERY
- SCOTTCHASSE.COM
- SKRIPT
- SOCIAL UPPER DECKER
- SPACE SAVERS PROJECT
- STOP AND LOOK
- STREETS DEPT
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One comment
Since when have artists NOT re-purposed imagery???? Keep up the Mash up!!! I love what you’ve been doing.
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