Tom McGlynn is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in the NYC area. McGlynn works primarily in painting, creating abstract geometric compositions from carefully balanced and colorful rectangles. To arrive at his compositions, McGlynn morphs commercial signage into minimalist, abstract arrangements of color. For McGlynn, this process is less about the logic of reducing commercial signs to their constituent simplified forms, but of coming to these forms lodge themselves in a shared consciousness and memory. McGlynn explores subconscious and its effect as primary gestalt in form and color, positing that commercial and pop consciousness is not only determined by the media we’re presented with. In his work, McGlynn imagines Minimalism as what critic Peter Plagens termed “imageless pop,” not so much a non-referential reduction of form and content, simply one removed of syntactical signifiers.

His work is represented in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, and The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum of the Smithsonian. He is an editor at large at The Brooklyn Rail where he has contributed articles and criticism since 2012.