Gideon Tomaschoff
Canadian painter
Gideon Tomaschoff (Hebrew: גדעון טומשקוף; born c. 1956) is an Israeli-Canadian abstract painter. He lives and works in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Background
Tomaschoff was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. He studied Engineering at the Ben Gurion University in Tel Aviv from 1978 to 1982. In 1986 his family moved to the United States and then to Canada. He began in 1993 to study art at the Ontario College of Art & Design, graduating in 1996. He received the Ontario Arts Council grant for emerging artists in 1998. His art is curated by Julie M. Gallery in Toronto.
Work
Tomaschoff's main work is in Abstract painting, working mainly with oil on canvas. Based on his travels through central and South America, he takes images based on building facades and transforms them from crumbling walls to a narrative that is reminiscent of landscapes.
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