Larry Thomas | Under Cover
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Year: 2015
Size: 72 x 72
Signature: No

Courtesy of Sherry Leedy Contemporary, Cerbera Gallery, and The Thomas Family.
In the case of a shipping, KCAC will remove the artwork from the stretchers and roll the canvas for safe and secure shipping via a tube. The estimated cost of shipping in this fashion is around $175 within the USA. The cost of restretching the canvas is the responsibility of the buyer.

BIO

Larry Thomas received MA and MFA degrees Printmaking and Drawing from the University of Iowa, and a BFA in Drawing and Printmaking from Missouri State University. He’s been in over a hundred regional, national, and international exhibitions and in more than ninety corporate, public, and private collections including the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art. He taught for 40 years at 3 different colleges. The last 25 years were in the Fine Arts Department at Johnson County Community College where he taught Drawing, Painting and Digital Imaging for Artists, and retired as Professor and Chair of the Fine Art and Photography Department. He is represented by Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art Gallery in Kansas City, MO.

ARTIST STATEMENT

At first glance my work might appear fairly abstract. Closer inspection reveals glimpses, fragments, or passages of potentially more recognizable shapes. Using traditional mediums such as paint, printmaking and collage with the contemporary medium of digitally generated images, my works are based on my research into perception, deception, secrets, code, and camouflage, both visually and conceptually. My paintings, prints and collages hold no allegiance to strictly representation or abstraction, but reflect my curiosity in how both kinds of images express how we cope using strategies of duplicity. I’m a forager of visual information that serves my fascination with deception in human and animal behavior. I particularly like the patterns and designs found in nature that most species have adopted for sustaining existence in a predatory world. From zebra stripes and leopard spots to the surface markings found on sea creatures, reptiles, insects, and vegetation, each has its unique strategy for survival. I’m not interested in Illustrating my ideas or being literal. I like the open possibilities of ambiguity. I prefer poetry to prose in my images. That way each viewer gets to be involved in the interpretation. I like that every individual can make one of my pieces their own.

Larry Thomas

Mint - This work is new and in excellent condition.