Chromoception is Samantha Thomas’s first solo exhibition since her home and studio burned in the Woolsey Fire in 2018.
As an artist, Thomas’s work begins with color, shape, texture, line, space, and light, the primary building blocks of painting. Using common studio materials such as raw canvas, thread, and acrylic paint, she embraces their fundamental and distinct qualities to expose their limits and possibilities for expression.
With her newest body of work, Thomas combines techniques of destruction and repair. Cutting away large portions of stretched canvas and reweaving new threads back through, the resulting works are sensuous and textured fiber-abstractions. Line by line, vibrant bands of color form that draw the eye across the canvases.
Artist and Curator Conversation:
Saturday April 20, 1pm
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 5pm