I was recently invited by Silvia Ammon from the Paris gallery Praz-Delavallade to visit with Thomas Fougeirol in his Ridgewood studio. Fougeirol's work and technique evokes elements of the American action painters of the 1950s, but with an emphasis on chance and anthropomorphism perhaps more akin to fellow Frenchman Yves Klein. While Fougeriol has previously worked in extremely large-scale, his most recent preference is for the use of more human-scale 6'x5' canvases, which enables him to work more instinctively and easily handle the work alone. The results are truly special.
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