Tom Moody

Who is Tom Moody?

Tom Moody is a visual artist, critic and blogger based in New York City. He began his career as a painter, using traditional materials, but became sensitive to the chemicals. In the mid-1990s, upon moving to New York, he began working with MS Paintbrush during downtime at a day job and has been using this abandonware since then, despite more sophisticated programs such as Photoshop being widely available. Newer works make use of animated GIF files.

He grew up in Texas, then double majored in fine arts and English Literature at the University of Virginia, and worked as an artist and critic in Dallas for local papers and Artforum before moving to New York.

In addition to obsolete software, his artworks combine traditional and digital media and techniques, combining art and craft. The New York Times has reviewed his artworks, calling them "amusing, also, for the way they fuse high modern associations, like Cubism or Greenbergian all-overness, with kitsch associations of Op Art and cheap office technology."