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A Tom Gilleon and Marshall Monroe digital painting, "Latent Radiance," 2025

28 August 2025, 12:00 PDT
Los Angeles

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Tom Gilleon and Marshall Monroe

Cherokee/American (b. 1942) and Anglo/American (20th/21st century), "Latent Radiance," 2025, digital triptych with commercial-grade monitors, edition 1 of 10, run time twelve minutes with continuous loop and optional pause.
each panel: height 68in, width 33in; overall, as mounted: height 66in, width 121 1/2in; recommend mounting height from floor: 19 1/4in

Footnotes

"Latent Radiance" is a collaborative work by Tom Gilleon as artist and Marshall Monroe as art and technology designer, created using their proprietary PixOils™ digital painting platform. Gilleon paints dozens of images by hand which are then digitized and collaboratively choreographed to create a seamlessly looping twelve-minute viewing experience. "Latent Radiance" is inspired by the work of photographer and ethnologist Edward Sheriff Curtis, who lived with and photographed subjects from more than eighty indigenous North American tribes between 1900 and 1930. 

Raised in rural Florida by his artist grandmother and cabinetmaker grandfather, Tom Gilleon's trajectory as an artist began early. In 1974, Gilleon's artwork caught the attention of the Walt Disney Company, and he subsequently spent 25 years as an Imagineer, working alongside Disney art legend Herb Ryman and dozens of other world-class artists, architects, and set designers to invent the concepts that became EPCOT Center and Disneyland Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai theme parks. In the early 1980s, Gilleon moved to Montana and began his fine art career.

Marshall Monroe spent 14 years as a Creative Executive with the Walt Disney company and was a founding member of the Disney Research and Development Division. Presently, Monroe is Founder and Chairman of Marshall Monroe MAGIC, a Creative Technology Incubator and Strategic Design Studio headquartered in New Mexico whose clients include Cirque du Soleil, Legendary Entertainment, HBO, NASA, and the C.M. Russell Museum.

Gilleon and Monroe first met during their respective tenures at Walt Disney Studios, and the pair began working together on digital paintings in 2020.

Tom Gilleon's oil and digital paintings are held in the permanent collections of C. M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, Montana; the Booth Museum of Western Art in Cartersville, Georgia; the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; the Whitney Western Art Museum in Cody, Wyoming; the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry; NASA; United States Air Force; The Walt Disney Company; Universal Studios; and Warner Bros. Studios. For additional information on the Tom Gilleon and the artist's digital paintings, please visit: https://www.tomgilleon.art/

Transportation, installation, and maintenance of "Latent Radiance" will be coordinated and overseen by KingArts artist agency.

To view a video excerpt from "Latent Radiance," please contact the department.

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