Woodruff in his studio, the original barn, next to Aurora, 2022; Autumn, 2021; and Euphrosyne, Aglaia, and Thalia, a work in progress, 2022.
Photo by Guzman
Artist Matthew Weinstein had known of Thomas Woodruff’s work for a long time, but they had never met. After he started seeing images on his Instagram feed of Woodruff’s paintings, depicting emotive dinosaurs awestruck by the cosmic forces of their doom, Weinstein kept hitting Like. He then introduced himself in a DM, saying that he needed to see those dinosaurs in person. According to Weinstein, he is predisposed to like people whose work he enjoys. But this doesn’t always work out. With Tom it did. He went to visit him at his studio upstate, Woodruff came to his in Brooklyn, and they had a lot to talk about. They still do.