Tom Hebert was born in Madawaska, Maine, in 1947. He attended Manchester Community College from 1969 to 1971 and earned a B.F.A. from the University of Connecticut in 1974. His work has been shown regularly throughout New England and has been displayed in galleries around the United States and in Germany. Herbert's abstracted trompe l'oeil still-life paintings of the 1980s recall the sharp precision of Charles Sheeler's work. His earlier, mixed-media works contain industrial lumberyard materials—including firing strips and asphalt roofing shingles—that are laid into a wood construction.
*Excerpted from Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection, published by Harry N. Abrams Inc.
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