About the Artist

Hello, My name is Tom Ivicevich,

I am 53 years old and was born and raised in San Pedro, a picturesque harbor town overlooking the Port of Los Angeles in Southern California.  I'm the eldest of four brothers. My father was born on a small island off the coast of Yugoslavia and my mother was born in Australia where they met and were married.

Some of my interests and inspirations while growing up were music, art, aviation, and surfing.  When I was about 11 years old I would ride my bike 10 miles to the nearest airport just to see and touch the planes and dream about flying.  I was already an experienced model airplane pilot and builder by that time, and very much under the spell of aviation.  Throughout high school and college my passions and abilities for art, music, flight, and surfing blossomed.  I left college after 3 1/2 years to pursue a successful 12 year career as a stained glass artist.  I also married.  In 1978 we moved to Redding, a rural but rapidly growing community in Northern California.   Stained glass work was scarce so I changed careers 180 degrees and became a real estate broker and general contractor.   I designed and built almost 100 houses including three for my growing family.   In addition to helping raise a family, I learned hang gliding, earned my private pilot's license, co-founded and played in a  popular north state blues band, and designed and executed more stained glass art.  I am now a full time practicing artist.

My latest efforts have been in the field of living sculpture and performance art.  In these mediums I can express my art without the necessity of the conventional venues of the art experience.   These works are exhibited and performed in  the most common venue of all.......the venue of every day life.

My current project will be exhibited and performed this year, from approximately mid March to December 17, 2004.  It is a flying sculpture made of glistening golden wood and cloud white cotton cloth.........a Wright Brothers flying machine!  I plan to fly it, coast to coast, in the free museum of the sky for all to see.  It will be a time machine, transporting the viewer through sight and sound back one hundred years to enjoy the miracle, wonderment, and magic of man's first flight.  I hope you enjoy it.

Thanks for the visit,