Thomas Woodruff is a self-proclaimed “neo-fabulist” artist who always works in series on large, complex imagistic projects. Hatched from personal experiences, the projects are often apotropaic and elegiac in nature, dealing with issues raised by the AIDS epidemic, aspects of maintaining wellness, and celebrating the outsider in all of us. The imagery is a cross-culturally hybridized, relentlessly figurative, technically tricky, perversely ornate, and more often than not– dark.

Woodruff has had over 20 one person exhibitions, including shows at the Haggerty Museum, Marquette University; the Selby Gallery, Ringling College of Art, Fla.; the Herron School of Art and Design, IUPUI; the University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach; University Gallery, Illinois St. University, Normal, Illinois; the Contemporary Museum, Honolulu; the Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, Ga; the Huntington Beach Art Center, California; the Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina; the St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Lous, MO.; and the Queens Museum, NY.

His works have been included in over one hundred group exhibitions internationally. He shows with P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York. His work is in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, MIT List Center, The New School, the Honolulu Contemporary Museum, the Greenville County Museum, and the Art Gallery of Western Australia.

Woodruff created his first print, the present lithograph The Robin’s Leap in June 2000. With his incredible graphic skill and a personal, metaphoric subject, Woodruff charms the viewer with the sweet, sad image of a robin father and his children.