"Tom Hooper's... abstract and surrealistic jam sessions."
- Ken Johnson, NY TIMES

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"Tom Hooper's  chance-oriented drawings capture the chaos of life on the set."
- The New Yorker

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"Tom Hooper's marvelous 'Misinterpret' floats a sketched character in a turbulent sea of color tests, paint spills, and penciled notes."
- Robert Shuster, Village Voice

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"One of the most popular and well-received shows in years"
- Nina Katchadourian, curator at The Drawing Center

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"The paintings of Tom Hooper create effects that emerge through the accumulation of accidents and experiments"

Rober Shuster, Village Voice

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"Intoxicating in its dense intermingling of representational figural elements within rapid strokes of color and agitated line.  Again, the negative space is jarring and fresh - as if the whirlwind of thought and purpose creating the melange of life was abruptly halted."

Resident Curator, Artist2Artist Social Network

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"Tom Hooper catches all the spills, sketches and paint tests that at the end of the day becomes his art."

N.F. Karlins, Artnet Magazine

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"Hooper's eclectic canvases bring together abstract and figurative interventions that build to create tableaus rich in detail and visual stimulation."

Richard Unwin talks to Tom Hooper, Chroma Magazine

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"Driven by his instinct, which are fed by responsive messages from his subconscious, Hooper starts his journey into the realm of collective unconscious as he heads towards unexpected narratives."

D Dominick Lombardi, Huffington Post

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