Tom Smart

Fabulous Peculiarities: the Art of Tony Calzetta Tom Smart

Publisher Marketing:"Fabulous Peculiarities" traces the artistic evolution of Canadian artist Tony Calzetta, whose penchant for experimentation and ability to both work within and subvert the rules has resulted in a unique and complex but unified aesthetic. Contributor Bio:  Smart, Tom Author, art gallery director, curator, columnist and special advisor to art galleries and museums, Tom Smart is especially noted for his award-winning critical biographies, catalogues and monographs on Canadian artists. To date, Smart has written about painters Alex Colville, Christopher Pratt, Mary Pratt, Tom Forrestall, Miller Brittain and Fred Ross; graphic novelist George A. Walker; and sculptor John Hooper. Smart has worked in art galleries and museums across Canada and the United States, among them the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Frick in Pittsburgh, the Art Gallery of Sudbury and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection where he was Executive Director from 2006-2010. Smart's essay 'The Wood Engravings of Rosemary Kilbourn' was recently published in the "Devil's Artisan". His bi-weekly column 'The Curator' appears in the Saint John "Telegraph-Journal".