Tom Lieber is an abstract painter and printmaker. His large-scale abstractions are notable for their bold, natural colors and fluid marks placed against a layered, neutral background. Informed by nature and meditations, Lieber’s work reflects his efforts to channel his interior life onto the canvas. Over the course of a forty-year career, Lieber has experimented with the limitless possibilities offered by abstraction and its legacy, creating an extraordinary visual language in the process.

Often a single brushstroke or gesture anchors Lieber’s paintings, allowing the underlying color fields and tonal variations to recede and advance across the ground. Calligraphic mark-making, the supple flow and arc of his line, and the dynamic rhythm of his abstract compositions are all signatures of Lieber’s style. He treats the act of painting as a full-body experience, open to unpredictable and challenging imagery.

Tom Lieber’s work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Tate Gallery, London; and numerous other art museums.

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