Michael Tomb

An Image of Music: Bones in Motion

April 15, 2015March 2, 2015 by Michael Tomb

An Image of Music: Bones in Motion

One of my recurring themes when creating images of musicians is to use motion and focus as a way to express my own personal sense of the music. Last year, during Bonerama‘s March 2014 visit to Rochester, I made such an image in tribute to one of my favorite bands – who also have become my and my wife’s friends. This composition is built from multiple exposures which together I have entitled “Bones in Motion”. To complete the image, I created a virtual frame based on sampled portions of the trombone metal in the pictures.

This is the 2015 contribution from Studio Michaelino to the Threadhead Cultural Foundation Raffle. It is a limited edition 16″ by 11″ print on archival matte paper which has been pre-mounted on a backing board. And it is the only existing print signed by the three members of the band in the picture: Mark Mullins, Craig Klein and Greg Hicks as well as the artist Michael “Michaelino” Tomb.

The print is valued at $150.

Studio Michaelino @ RoCo Upstairs First Friday

December 4, 2014 by Michael Tomb

See New Art from Studio Michaelino and visit other open studios at RoCo Upstairs during the First Friday December 5, 2014 event. At the same time the Rochester Contemporary Art Center will be showing its 24th Annual Members Exhibition featuring works from over 270 artists. Michael Tomb will also be given a short ten minute talk at 6:10 in the downstairs gallery on his submission to the 2014 Exhibition, “Root Wars I”, as part of the “Day the Artists Spoke”. Michael will speak on his inspiration for his series “Skin of the Arboretum” and other digital works, including on his interest on digital framing and Trompe L’oeil.

Skin of the Arboretum

December 3, 2014 by Michael Tomb

Trionfo Violetto

October 11, 2014 by Michael Tomb

The Perfect Pole Bean. At least in my opinion, but let me list the ways. First, the whole plant is beautiful, but I say that about many vegetables. Seriously though, blossoms, foliage & vines and the beans themselves are among the prettiest things in the garden. Second, at my latitude in Rochester, New York, these are also prolific across the summer well into the fall and easy to grow. But again, these are pole beans, they must be given vertical space. Which means they grow well in big containers if kept well watered. Next, they are tasty, stringless and remain quite edible even when big. Finally: Trionfo Violetto is a heritage bean and one of the easiest from which to harvest seed. Just leave a few pods on the vine and come back when they are dry, Keep the seed or even whole pods in a paper sack. The seeds will keep for several years. In fact, I haven’t bought seed for this bean in about 20 years. It is perfect.

Triad of Trionfo Violetto
One Edition:
Limited to 30 Signed Prints

Giclée Matte on Backing Board with Trompe L’oeil Frame
19″ by 13″ $120

Triumph in Violet
One Edition:
Limited to 30 Signed Prints

Giclée Matte on Backing Board with Trompe L’oeil Frame
19″ by 13″ $120

In the Field: Trionfo Violetto
One Edition:
Limited to 30 Signed Prints

Giclée Matte on Backing Board with Trompe L’oeil Frame
19″ by 13″ $120

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Smugtown Mushrooms

October 7, 2014 by Michael Tomb

A gallery of images taken at Smugtown Mushrooms located in next door to the Rochester Public Market. Smugtown offers culinary & medicinal mushrooms, growing kits and cultivation classes . And building blocks for miniature worlds that I must capture.

Oyster Cliffs
Oyster Mushrooms growing on the sides of a block build from sawdust

Two Editions: Limited to 25 Signed Prints

Giclée Matte on Backing Board with Trompe L’oeil Frame
13″ by 19″ $120

Giclée Matte Print (Size Includes Border): 13″ by 19″ $85

Reflective Reishi
Overhead view of a shelf based farm of Reishi mushrooms

Two Editions: Limited to 25 Signed Prints

Giclée Matte on Backing Board with Trompe L’oeil Frame: 13″ by 19″ $120

Giclée Matte Print: 13″ by 19″ $85

Oyster Single Cliff
Round Reishi Squared
Single Editions: Each limited to 30 Signed Prints

Giclée Matte on Backing Board with Trompe L’oeil Frame
12″ by 12″ $75

Reishi Land
Fisheye view of shelf based farms of Reishi mushrooms at Smugtown Mushrooms.

Two Editions: Limited to 25 Signed Prints

Giclée Matte on Backing Board with Trompe L’oeil Frame
13″ by 19″ $120

Giclée Matte Print
11″ by 18.5″ $85

Eggplant India Paint

January 9, 2019October 7, 2014 by Michael Tomb

A Beautiful Miniature

Eggplant in Black & White & Purple
One Edition:
Limited to 30 Signed Prints

Giclée Matte on Backing Board with Trompe L’oeil Frame
11″ by 14″ $95

Photo of the Week: Sustainable Energy Developments, Inc

September 6, 2014 by Michael Tomb

What happens when you combine a passion for photography, renewable energy and apple cider? For Rochester, NY photographer Michael Tomb it meant a chance opportunity to capture some amazing images, like the one we’re featuring here. Returning from a vacation trip in Vermont, Michael and his wife Marcia stopped at the Cold Hollow Cider Mill in Waterbury, VT to get some cold cider for the road. When he spotted the farm’s “solar orchard” out back, he says the simple abstract beauty got a hold of him and he spent some time capturing many dramatic wide angles of the farm’s 26 solar arrays (which have become a local attraction). Later, he made a stop at a wind farm in NYS to take more photos and he plans to create a series called “On The Grid”, with these and other images. Michael’s deep interest in energy began as a physics major in college, when he toured the Three Mile Island nuclear facility, a couple of years before the famous accident, and had an epiphany: “I looked at all the switches and gauges and said silently to myself – they have forgotten human error.” We’re delighted to share his passion for renewable energy with you and plan to post other images from his series in weeks to come.

From Sustainable Energy Developments, Inc – Facebook Page

Homage to Homegrown Tomatoes

November 24, 2018September 1, 2014 by Michael Tomb

Homegrown Homage
The Homage is to the Chromolithographs published by James Vick & Sons in many horticultural Art Journals, Monthlies and Catalogs in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries.

Two Editions:Limited to 25 Signed Prints

Giclée Matte on Backing Board with
Trompe L’oeil Frame: 13″ by 19″ $165

Giclée Matte Print: 13″ by 19″ $85

In the Field:Sun Gold Branch
Taken in my container garden of one of those varieties I am compelled to grow every year. Sun Gold joined my personal canon of Tomato varieties about 15 years ago, joining Moreton Hybrid and Principe Borghese as a favorite.

One Edition:
Limited to 25 Signed Prints

Giclée Matte on Backing Board with Trompe L’oeil Frame
9″ by 13″ $85

Portraits of the Pumpkins

March 9, 2019June 7, 2014 by Michael Tomb

Another homage to Chromolithographs published by James Vick & Sons in many Rochester Based Horticultural Art Journals, Monthlies and Catalogs during the 19th and Early 20th Centuries. This Still Life was captured in my garden and each pumpkin was grown by a vendor at the Rochester Public Market.

Each Available in Two Editions:
Limited to 25 Signed Prints

Giclée Matte on Backing Board with
Trompe L’oeil Frame: 13″ by 19″ $165

Giclée Matte Print: 13″ by 19″ $85

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