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Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1949, Tolman
attended classes at the Institute of Art, and at
Cass Tech, an arts magnet high school. He is a
graduate of the Art School of the Society of Arts
& Crafts, which is now known as the Center for
Creative Studies, also in Detroit.
The artist left Detroit in 1977 to paint in Ireland
for nine months, returning to live in Texas, where
he began showing with the William Campbell
Gallery in Fort Worth and had his first one man
show with the Nimbus Gallery in Dallas. He also
lived in Lawrence, Kansas and Los Angeles
before moving to the Ramah Navajo
Reservation in New Mexico in 1981. New Mexico
felt like home, and he later settled in the Duranes
area of Albuquerque, building an adobe house
and studio in 1987. In 1990 he spent a year
painting in Arraiolos, a small hill town in central
Portugal, and in 1994 he returned to Portugal
to work in the coastal town of Ericeira for two
months.
Tolman’s work is included in many corporate
collections and a piece was recently purchased
by the Albuquerque Museum for their
permanent collection.
Tolman currently works in a variety of mediums
including drawing in pencil and caran d'ache,
and painting in both acrylic and oil, often with
collage and mixed media on canvas or paper.
These works are organic abstractions and often
based on observation of nature.
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