Verso:
Tom Scicluna

Further to the ongoing sq. ft. series that utilizes large-scale decommissioned vinyl billboard tarps, Verso consists of oversized billboard wraps installed back-to-front and composed with consideration to the given Walgreens storefront window spaces. As opposed to featuring explicit image and text, the billboards used in Verso are blank in content and thus emphasize the physical and material nature of the vinyl tarps themselves. Working with the reverse side of used commercial advertising and functioning as a series of manipulated black monochromes – hung, creased, folded, layered, compressed, etc. – Verso references notions of space, materiality, and the conditions of display.

Artist Bio
Tom Scicluna is a Miami-Based artist. Recent shows and projects include: Domain, Nina Johnson, Miami, FL; 2019 Atlanta Biennial: A thousand tomorrows, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA; Some Aesthetic Decisions: Centennial Celebration of Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain, NSU Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, FL; and Climate Sync, a public artwork realized in conjunction with Miami-Dade Art in Public Places and installed at Oolite Arts, Miami Beach, FL. His work is in the permanent collections of ICA Miami, NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, and the Pérez Art Museum Miami. Scicluna is currently an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Florida International University, Miami, FL.