Anthony D. Tomaselli is one of New England’s most celebrated painters, specializing in neo-Expressionistic genre scenes and timeless subject matter. Anthony earned his BA in Studio Art in 1976 from Rhode Island College and received additional training in architectural design at the Boston Architectural Center. He is an active member of The Salmagundi Club, The Rockport Art Association, and The Providence Art Club, where his studio at the historic Fleur de Lys Building in the College Hill neighborhood is a hub for the instructional classes he teaches to the region’s emerging artists. Anthony is the recipient of numerous awards and is regularly featured in publications such as The Providence Journal, Hey Rhody Magazine, and The Boston Globe. He lives in Warwick, RI, with his family and continues to explore innovative approaches to the oil medium in his prolific painting practice.

Anthony’s work focuses on sea and city, and derives from his personal experiences. He seeks to forge a connection with viewers’ sensibilities and encourage an awareness of personal place in his painted reflections of the day, the night, the rain, and the snow. He hopes that the places he paints become the viewers’ places as well, and form a site of shared identity. Our memories of a given morning, an evening bursting with light, or the hustle of a busy city, are all our common experiences, and Anthony’s work strives to render these sensations universal. As he states, “One of my greatest learning experiences in life and art was packing up and leaving Rhode Island, ready to live in California. It lasted three months. I became very homesick…very homesick. While leaving the Grand Canyon, on my drive home, I remember telling myself that I would never do anything that I did not want to in my life. I would pursue the life of an artist. It took me a while to understand what that really meant, but I pretty much kept my eye on the ball over the years. I am a student of life and I’ve been lucky to have ventured into the world of art, where introspection is a daily event.”