Artworks in the Tom Prochaska Trust are temporarily off the market during October 2026 while several estate inventory procedures are completed. Works will be available for purchase soon. Contact the gallery with titles of any works you want to reserve for acquisition. Thank you!
Tom Prochaska worked effortlessly in a range of media including painting, etchings, glass, and papier maché. His imagery was fluid allowing compositions to complete themselves during the process of making them. He often worked from direct observation, but his art was deeply guided by his expansive, spontaneous imagination. He was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1945 and passed away in the spring of 2026 in Portland, Oregon, just short of his 81st Birthday.
Tom Prochaska received his Masters degree in Fine Arts from Pratt Institute in 1970 and taught at Pacific Northwest College of Art from 1988 until his retirement in 2012. Prochaska exhibited extensively throughout the United States and the world, he was in group exhibits including those at Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA; Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA; and the Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR. A solo exhibition of his prints in Lugano, Switzerland, was on view in the fall of 2018. His work can be found in museum collections worldwide. In 2023, curator Jonathan Bucci of The Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem, exhibited a retrospective survey of his career titled, Tom Prochaska Music For Ghosts. The exhibition featured 70 works spanning over 50 years including paintings, drawings, prints, and work on glass."
Tom's family has identified The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research for contributions honoring his memory, see link below.