Tom Holdcamper's Moon Landing Series

 

These stream-of-consciousness drawings

(pencil and oil on canvas, and pen and ink on paper)

date back to the early 1970s, at a time when the

 recent moon landing was capturing imaginations.

 

 

 

 

      Tom Holdcamper at the opening on March 14, 2013

 

The drawings are a complex filigree of symbols, icons, logos,

 and text that imagine what colonizing the moon might

 look like and mean for the future.

 

 Whether despite or because of the

patina of time, the suite looks amazingly

contemporary.

  

 

 

 

           

                                      

 

 

                                           
                                          
                                                   Portrait of the artist as a young man.


                                              Photographs courtesy of Elizabeth Michelman