Tofu's Art Blog

When not working on my own art I spend a great deal of time out and about looking at other work.

Friday, January 26, 2018

Recycled Apples

Today this year’s first big batch of mail art was sent out. A series of 21 collage postcards. The source material was my 2017 calendar ...

Friday, January 19, 2018

Finding Whittier at the Vintage Paper Fair

I paid 33¢ for this old postcard at the Vintage Paper Fair in San Francisco this month. The birch bark trompe l’oeil ...

Monday, January 15, 2018

New Year, New Mail

My P.O. Box was full after I returned from Christmas travel and more cool mail art keeps arriving. There were some holiday card str...

Thursday, January 11, 2018

time + color + memory = returns

Last year I sent out a series of ATCs exploring ideas of time, color and memory. You can read about the original m...

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About Me

Tofu: San Francisco, CA, United States; Tofu is a San Francisco artist working primarily in mixed media, collage and landscape painting. His work has included maps, postcard-themed art and mail art projects. In 2013 he began moving away from found ephemera and shifted to making his own material. This started with a series called Collagescapes. With Collagescapes, he starts by painting paper with areas of color representing the palette of a specific place. Next, he cuts up the paper into hundreds of small pieces. The final steps are to randomize the pieces and then reassemble them in various geometric patterns. Collagescapes are both landscape paintings and collages. Tofu’s latest work is a series called Post-Folk Art. It is a nod to the color palettes found in costumes, textiles, pottery and other forms of traditional Kashubian and Polish folk art. Since 1997 his work has shown in over 40 venues, primarily in California but also in other locations in the United States and abroad. His artwork can be viewed at tofuart.com

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