There's an excellent article in W magazine about Brooklyn-based artist Fred Tomaselli, a collage artist whose psychedelic, obsessive, pharmaceutically-inspired work is as beautiful and awe-inspiring as it is thought-provoking.
Much of his work is collage imbued with sometimes thousands of tiny images and objects, including pharmaceuticals. Tomaselli creates universes, inner and outer, from pill constellations. Portraits of friends are "painted" using their favorite prescriptions. Marijuana leaves create a desert landscape. Tomaselli is clearly inspired by the inner- and outer space that pills, and other drugs, can represent and is open about the time in his life when he was exploring that space recreationally. Now, however, his days are fueled by caffeine, nicotine gum, and occasional nights of Ambien-induced sleep.
LINK (W Magazine)
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