TOM OF NEW YORK

if you live in NYC or plan to visit, check out this great group exhibit featuring all things TOM-
Feature Inc.
presents:
TOM OF FINLAND AND THEN SOME
A Group Showing

Opening Reception: Friday, June 25, 6:00 - 9:00 PM

In cooperation with the TOM OF FINLAND FOUNDATION,
sketches and drawings by Tom of Finland...




AND THEN SOME!

Partnering Tom of Finland is imagery by a number of other contemporary artists including-

Richard Kern
Judy Linn
Bastille
Jerry Phillips
Martin of Holland
Joe Brainard
Fred Esher
Larry Clark
Robert W. Richards
Brian Kenny
Sean Landers
Richard Prince
Robert Fontanelli
GB Jones
Jeff Burton
Mie Yim
Raymond Pettibon
Catherine Opie
Carl Ferrero
Kevin Larmon
Jared Buckhiester
Judy Rifka
Jeffrey Pittu
Scooter Laforge
Tyler Ingolia
David Frye
The Hun
Kinke Kooi
Juan Gomez
Rex
Gengoroh Tagame

TOM OF FINLAND (Finnish, 1920 – 1991),

Tom of Finland, Touko Laaksonen by birth, was born on the south coast of Finland on May 8, 1920. He trained and worked in design and advertising and in 1973, left his job to work full time on his drawings. Between 1978 and 1988, Tom of Finland split his time between Helsinki and Los Angeles; he died of an emphysema-induced stroke on November 7, 1991. This exhibition is made in cooperation with the Los Angeles based Tom of Finland Foundation.

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Feature Inc. is a contemporary art gallery exhibiting painting, drawing, photography and sculpture by established and emerging American and international artists in New York City since 1988.

Feature opened on April Fool’s Day 1984, in a second floor space at 340 West Huron St., Chicago. In August 1988, the gallery moved to NYC and opened in October at 484 Broome St. Soon after the move, the 340 W. Huron building burned to the ground; Feature escaped just in time. Feature relocated to 76 Greene St. in September 1993, and became Feature Inc. in January 1994. The move to 530 W. 25 St. occurred in October 1999. At all the aforementioned locations, Feature contained two or more exhibition spaces, so that several exhibitions could be presented simultaneously.

Feature Inc. reincarnated in September 2008 at 276 Bowery, delighted to be back downtown, however two days after opening the crash happened and life there was short lived.

Mid-December 2009, Feature reopened in its sixth space at 131 Allen St., still on the lower east side.

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