Jesse Thomas 
Paintings and Drawings
  • Ink and Oil
  • Entourer
  • Keystone Confederates 2017
    • Keystone Editions gallery Berlin installation
    • Keystone Confederates Scott Gallery Edmonton Install
  • Aesthetic Histories Exhibition at Zhengzhou University of Light Industry
  • The Order of Things 2016
  • Def Perspectives/Songs from the Labyrinth 2014/2015
    • def Words
    • Install Shots: Def Perspectives and Songs from the Labyrinth
  • Gold Ochre 2013
    • Super-Spy Statement
    • Drawings and Studies from my 1st Year in Edmonton
  • Paintings 2012/2014
    • Nightmare Aftre Aertsen
  • Paintings 2009 - 2011: The Cerulean Brigade
    • The Cerulean Brigade/ Interior Conspiracy
  • cv
Solo Exhibitions:

2017
Keystone Editions
, Berlin, Germany                                           Keystone Confederates
MCPAG, Stony Plain, AB, Canada                                               The Order of Things
Scott Gallery, Edmonton, AB, Canada                                        Gold Soundz

2016
Zhengzhou University of Light Industry,
Zhengzhou, China    Aesthetic Histories

2015

FAB Gallery, Edmonton, AB, Canada                                         Songs from the Labyrinth

2014
Enterprise Square Galleries, Edmonton, AB, Canada              Def Perspectives

2013
SNAP Gallery, Edmonton, AB, Canada                                         Super-Spy Narratives: Paintings of Drawings of Prints

2012
Schmidt Art Center, Belleville, IL                                                     Figure It Out (w/ Robert McCann)

2011
Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA                                Cerulean Brigade
Robert Bills Contemporary, Chicago, IL                                          Interior Conspiracy

2006
Snowflake, St. Louis, MO                                                                Recent Work: Jesse Thomas

2004
Fort Gondo Compound for the Arts St. Louis, MO                          Paintings and Sculpture


Group Exhibitions:            
2014
Enterprise Square Galleries, Edmonton, AB, Canada               Fresh Paint

2011
AQUA Artfair, Miami                                                    with Eleanor Harwood Gallery
NEXT Artfair, Chicago                                                 with Robert Bills Contemporary                       

2010
Des Lee Gallery, St Louis, MO                                     Washington U. Faculty Exhibition

2008
Evansville Museum, Evansville, IN                              54th Mid-States Art Exhibition
Hoffman LaChance Gallery, St. Louis, MO                  threehundredsix St Louis
Millstone Gallery, COCA, St. Louis, MO                                  Personal Allegories
University of Georgia, Athens, GA                                Cortona Program Exhibition

2007
Palazzo Casali, Cortona, Italy                                      Faculty Exhibition

2006
Evansville Museum, Evansville, IN                              53rd Mid-States Art Exhibition
Regional Arts Commission, St. Louis, MO                    Earthworks: Art for an Endangered Planet                                                      
Fontbonne University Gallery, St. Louis, MO               Faculty Exhibition

2004
Kemper Museum St. Louis, MO                                               WUSTL Faculty Exhibition                                                      

2002
Fort Gondo Compound for the Arts St. Louis, MO        Dreamy

1998                                                               
Contemporary Art Center New Orleans, LA                  The Ghost of Cornell
 

Bibliography:
Curious Arts “Jesse Thomas: Songs from the Labyrinth” by TJ Jans.
Published February 10, 2015
http://www.curiousarts.ca/jesse-thomas-songs-labyrinth

Galleries West online, Agnieszka Matejko, JESSE THOMAS: "Songs From the Labyrinth," Fine Arts Building Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Jan. 20 to Feb. 14, 2015
http://www.gallerieswest.ca/art-reviews/exhibition-reviews/jesse-thomas%3A-%22songs-from-the-labyrinth,%22-fine-arts-building/

Josh Greschner, “FAB Gallery Exhibition Explores Music,” The Gateway, Volume 105, Issue 22, January 21, 2015, 16
http://thegatewayonline.ca/2015/01/gallery-preview-songs-labyrinth/

Michelle Falk, “Songs from the Labyrinth,” Vue, February 5-11, 2015, Issue 1006, 13
http://www.vueweekly.com/songs-labyrinth-reality-wrapped-dream/

SnapLine, Brnesh Berhe, “Super Spy Narratives: Paintings of Drawings of Prints/ JesseThomas Interview,” Fall 2013

Edmonton Journal, 10 Things To Do This Week, “Super-Spy Narratives: Paintings of Drawings of Prints, August 2013,

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/mobile/entertainment/top-stories/Music+dark+skies+soccer+things+this+week/8843917/story.html?&img=3

ArtIsAbout.com, Eddie Arroyo, “Aqua Art Fair 2011,” December 12, 2011, http://artisabout.com/2011/12/12/aqua-art-fair-2011//

EyeSeeHue.com, Evanice Holz, Interview with Jesse Thomas, Issue 02, September 08, 2011
http://eyeseehue.com/#1925624/Jesse-P-Thomas

ArtistADay.com, “Jesse Thomas.” September 2011
http://www.artistaday.com/?p=11263

MavericksALaMode.com, “Jesse Thomas.” August 2011 http://www.mavericksalamode.com/2011/08/jesse-p-thomas.html

CurbsandStoops.com, Maria Anderson, “Jesse Thomas and his Cerulean Brigade.” August 18, 2011 http://www.curbsandstoops.com/jesse-thomas/

NewAmericanPaintings.Wordpress.com, “Jesse Thomas at Eleanor Harwood Gallery.” July 29, 2011 http://newamericanpaintings.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/jesse-thomas-at-eleanor-harwood-gallery/

FecalFace.com, Ashley Taylor, “Jesse Thomas @ Eleanor Harwood.” July 22, 2011
http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php/opening-photos/3412-jesse-thomas-eleanor-harwood

Life at Francisco Studios blog, Katherine Hisako Kodama, “Jesse Thomas at Eleanor Harwood Gallery http://www.eleanorharwood.com/Site/jesse_thomas_press_files/Life%20at%20Francisco%20Studios_%20Jesse%20Thomas%20at%20EHG.pdf

Thomas Crone, Cherokee’s Art Explosion, St. Louis Magazine, Jan. 2006, 144

Ivy Cooper, “Cherokee Nation Uprising,” The Riverfront Times, Jan. 12-18, 2006, 22

Ivy Cooper, “Art St. Louis XX: The Exhibition,” The Riverfront Times, December 1-7, 2004, 36

Sarah Houle, “Jesse Thomas at Fort Gondo,” ARTillery, No. 2, December 2004, 5

Ivy Cooper, “Oil Man: Paintings by Jesse Thomas,” The Riverfront Times, November24 - 30, 2004, 35 Louisiana State Museum

Paul Friswold, “The Jesse Thomas Show,” The Riverfront Times, November 17-23, 2004, 38

 

Awards and Competitions:
New American Paintings, No. 95, Midwest Edition  2011, p138-141

New American Paintings, No. 89, Midwest Edition  2010, p128-131

Semifinalist, National Portrait Gallery’s Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition
50 Portraits to be selected for exhibition at Washington D.C. Smithsonian NPG in October 2009

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