Eric Sutphin reviews the recent exhibition Thomas Trosch: Paintings: New And Old at Fredericks & Freiser, New York.

Sutphin writes: “Trosch has mastered the art of suggestion: one gets a sense of the ages and affects of the figures through dashes and globs of paint. He accomplishes the difficult task of marrying subject matter and formal execution, with the revisions and layers of paint becoming a corollary to the subjects’ efforts to keep up appearances. Trosch folds labor and luxury together in his impastoed pictures, which, despite their encrusted surfaces, manage to feel fresh and alive.”