TOM UTTECH
VIEWING ROOM
Wisconsin native Tom Uttech creates evocative landscape paintings that feed our expectations of the wilderness—raw and wild, yet familiar and welcoming. His work captures a world of waterways, rugged shorelines, tumbling rocks, and dense thickets, blending both real and imagined elements into richly layered scenes. Uttech draws inspiration from his travels to Northern Minnesota and Ontario’s Quetico Provincial Park, places that deeply inform the atmosphere of his paintings.
Working just outside Milwaukee in a converted barn-studio, he continues to produce work that evokes the northern woods and resonates with viewers. The gallery has proudly maintained a long-standing relationship with Tom since his first exhibition here in 1990.
Museum Collections
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AK; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Philbrook Art Museum, Tulsa, OK; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, WI; Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI; Tuscon Museum of Art, Tuscon, AZ; Rahr-West Art Museum, Manitowoc, WI; Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
"When I enter the north woods of Wisconsin, I try not to be present as a person. I try not to be conscious of myself, but rather just absorb and observe - to be a pair of eyes in the woods instead of a body."
-Tom Uttech
WASAAKWAA (1121)
Oil on Board
13 x 15” (Framed)
“When you’re alone, after a few days, the internal conversations gradually wear out, and you are able to really accept the little things happening around you and the spirits of those things. You can find yourself. You're out of place with the ordinary and in place with something eternal.”
-Tom Uttech
MADABIMIGAD (863)
Oil on Linen
14 x 14 3/4” (Framed)
“When painting, I recall the drama, peacefulness, risk and mystery I found in Quetico, its vast sweeping lakes haunted by loon calls and wolf howls, surrounded by metaphoric forests, the exhilarating rush of migrating birds, the river that crashes against the mossy rocks as it pours into a deep pool, the solitary bear that stands undisturbed by the sounds and sights”
-Tom Uttech
MAMAKADENDAGWAD (1112)
Oil on Masonite Coated with Gamuar
15 3/4 x 18 3/4” (Framed)
“When I paint, I'm yearning to stop being myself in this body, to stop being aware of my life and just to be that presence.”
-Tom Uttech