Chuck Thomas
Lives & works in Brooklyn, New York
The recent body of work over the last decade were initially inspired by my diving trips around the globe. I want the canvases to feel as though they are in the act of creation themselves. The patterns and swirls of color that are a reflection of my sensory experiences under water.
The colors, textures and shapes that were all around me created mental images of stardust mixing with water, churning and mixing with our air and sun to create an organic seed that was the start of our existence. Forms merge to become sentient beings, bubbles become heads, patterns emerge as shapes that are at once beautiful and potentially menacing.
They are hybrids, combining elements of figure and landscape into abstract compositions. The layered strokes and marks of color shape an image more discovered then planned. World travel influences, the cities, locals, figures and faces meld with nature, creating patterns with the possibility of forms materializing. These images are an alternate reality, one that mirrors our own as a window into another reality. A world of reflections, a mirror image of memory creating a place imaged.
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Education
M.F.A. San Francisco Art Instiitute, San Francisco, CA
B.F.A. Center for Creative Studies, Detroit. MI
New York AICA Studio Program, Winter
Group Exhibitions
2023 "Celestial Light". Spring Break Art Fair, Los Angelas, CA
2021. "Small Works". The Royal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018. "Rock, Paper, Scissors". The Plaxall Gallery, LIC, NY
2015 "Circle the Wagons" Brooklyn NY
2015 The Royal "Colorization" Brooklyn NY
2014 Sideshow Gallery "At The Alamo" Brooklyn NY
2013 Sideshow Gallery "Sideshow Nation" Brooklyn NY
2012 Kunstiefde, Metropolis, Utrecht, NL
2012 Affordable Art Fair, Artra Gallery, BE
2012 Amade Tentoonsteiling, Campo Gallerij, Antwerpen, BE
2011 Gallerie Mia Joosten, Expositie Lutmastraat, Amsterdam, NL
2008 (ST)ART, Kloosterstraat 13. Antwerp, BE
2004 Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 Independent Bi-Annual El Bohio-Charras, Center for the Arts, NY, NY
1993 "Fresh Squeezze: A Show of Bay Area Artists". Budapest, Hungary
1992 Walter-McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992 Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Solo and 2 Person Shows
2024 "Metamorphic Migrations" Crossing Art Gallery, New York, NY
2023. "Nighthawk Pulse" Spring Break, New York, NY
2018 Sideshow Gallery (solo show), "Territorial", Brooklyn, NY
2014 Sideshow Gallery (2 person show). Brooklyn, NY
2011 Graanmarkt13, Heide. Belgium
2007 Studio Apart, Amsterdam, NL
2006 Chaldea Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2004 Zieher Smith Gallery, New York, NY