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Artist statement
I am not one who believes in the need for specialization in one medium. Therefore, I am not a sculptor, painter, printmaker, blacksmith or draftsman singularly, I am a culmination of all of them. My passion is the creation and making of objects. I am not solely concerned with the conceptual burdens that are so important in today's contemporary art circles. If art can only function to titillate cognitive reason and the rational conceptual demand for mental discourse, I am not an artist. However, if art is the evidence of faith and the creation of form, which evokes questions of the past; ponderances of the present, or transcendence from the current state of consciousness, then I must be striving to be an "Artist". Yet, I would rather be viewed as just another maker of objects.
Air is measured in pressure and volume; similarly these objects are a physical experience of pressure and volume. The Inflatables are not fabricated so much as grown. The forging of the steel while under air pressure expands the material in such a way that they reference organic forms. The colors used are specific to industrial farm equipment; the color accentuates the form by re-contextualizing the experience of industrial farming, without the prescribed ideological notions of identity, purpose, and place. The contrast that is created by the use of color associated with heavy equipment (which tends to be viewed as a masculine point of pride) placed on sensual forms sets up an interesting juxtaposition. Sexual or erotic form is not dependent on gender. Masculinity and femininity are not material forms but rather social constructs. Creases, folds, wrinkles, curved lines, bulges; these are things that make sensual erotic form. This, coupled with the contrast of the hard gloss surfaces of the synthetic powder coat to the soft leathery oxidized surface of the raw rusted steel, assist in heightening the sense of contrast between the synthetic and the organic.
Jeremy Thomas 5/4/2006
Born: 1973
Education:
Bachelor of Fine Arts, The College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Internship, artist blacksmith Tom Joyce, Santa Fe, NM
Internship intaglio printmaking, painter/printmaker Jean Richardson, Oklahoma City, OK
Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute, with artist Deloss McGraw
Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute, with artist Robert Z. Rahway
Exhibitions:
2009 “Cotton Module” Samuel Freeman, Santa Monica, CA
2008 Solo Exhibition “implement” Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Charlotte Jackson Project Space, Santa Fe, NM
2007 Purple Rain, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
Of the Wall, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, Ca
2006 Solo Exhibition, “Inflatables” Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
That’s Hot, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
Site Unseen 4, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Clockwork Orange, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
Collect 8 Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2005 Yellow Show, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
Group Show, Rocket Gallery, London, UK
Objects of Desire, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
Collect New Mexico, the Museum Of Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2004 Rocket Gallery, London, UK
The Grass is Not Greener, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
Selections, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
By Invitation, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
Monothon 18, College of Santa Fe, Tishman Hall, Santa Fe, NM
Site Unseen, James Kelly Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2003 Santa Fe Emerging Artist Expo, Santa Fe, NM
2002 Monothon 16, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
2001 Monothon 15, College of Santa Fe, Tishman Hall
Pojoaque Art Tour Group Exhibition Sanchez Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Jett Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2000 Monothon 14, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
1999 Monothon 13, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
1996 Element and Image, Two Thesis Exhibitions College of Santa Fe, Fine Arts Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Bricktown Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK
1995 The College of Santa Fe Faculty and Student Art Show Fuller Lodge Art Center, Los Alamos, NM
The Short and Tall of it All La Baguette French Bistro, Oklahoma City, OK
1994 Inn of the Anasazi, Santa Fe, NM
1993 Quartz Mountain Collection ‘92
Goodard Art Center, Ardmore, OK
Philbrook Arts Center, Tulsa, OK
City Arts Center, Oklahoma City, OK
Quartz Mountain Arts and Conference Center Lone Wolf, OK Permanent
Exhibition (destroyed by Fire)
1992 Young Talent in Oklahoma, City Arts Center, Oklahoma City, OK
Quartz Mountain Collection ‘91
Philbrook Arts Center, Tulsa, OK
Oklahoma City Arts Museum, Oklahoma City, OK
1991 Young Talent in Oklahoma, City Arts Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Publications:
October/November 2007 Santa Fean “Frame of Mind” pg 43
May 26, 2006 Albuquerque Journal North “Not For The Faint Of Heart”
by Tom Collins pg. S8
May 10-16, 2006 Santa Fe Reporter “Here and There” by Zane Fisher pg.34
Jan. 13th 2006 Albuquerque Journal North “Santa Fe Gallery Openings” pg. S5
Jan 20-26, 2006 Pasatiempo “Ongoing at the galleries”, pg. 67
May 29, 2005 Santa Fe New Mexican “Edgy to established” pg. D-1
July 26, 2005 Santa Fe New Mexican “An International Incident” pg. D-1
Dec 24-30, 2004 Pasatiempo “Santa Fe galleries A guide for the rest of us”; Pgs.
28, 29, 31,37,39,46,48,49,55
Feb. 6, 2004 Pasatiempo; pg. 80
Dec/Jan 2003-04 THE Magazine: pg. 46
May 8-14, 1996 Santa Fe Reporter—“Offsite in View and Two Theses”; pg. 31
May 1995 THE Magazine—“11th Annual Student Art Exhibition”; pg. 61
May 6, 1994 Pasatiempo
May 5, 1994 Albuquerque Journal North
April 2, 1993 Pasatiempo—“College Art Students Vie For Prizes, Recognition at Show”
Collections:
New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Wiesman Foundation
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