Configurations: Training Wheels for Microgravity Painting

Becoming adept at making the seemingly impossible possible is crucial to all innovation. Tony Taj recognizes how implausible sources often yield the greatest artistic illuminations. "You can't pin me down," he often chuckles, responding to gallery-goers astonishment upon viewing his distinctive, ever-evolving approaches to painting. 

Tony hopes to capture feeling completely weightless on canvas. Configurations is the newest series of work by Tony that explores organized chaos. Paint is manipulated in the moment and uses gravity to fall to the canvas. Using observing the outcome leads to inspiration and serves to guide future choice.

Specifying parameters such as: color selection, quantity of paint, how fast and far to apply paint, the process of creation naturally unfolds. This approach unveils how the artist's intention coupled with spontaneity yields work that is simultaneously abstract and representational.

​Land Configuration- Tony Taj

​Metropolis Configuration- Tony Taj