Jeremy Thomas Sculptures
American, b. 1973
Admirers of Jeremy Thomas’ sculpture should be grateful to a thief. Thomas came to the College of Santa Fe to study Studio Arts as a painter and printmaker, both of which he had been doing since high school, even apprenticing with a master printmaker in his native Oklahoma. However, one semester while moving out of his dormitory, with boxes and bags piled around, the wooden box which held all of his brushes and painting supplies went missing. One moment it was on the curb, the next it was gone. Thus ended Thomas’ career as a painter. The next semester he took a sculpting class and never turned back.
While Thomas is happy to converse about theory and concept, he is most content thinking of himself as a maker of objects rather than an “artist”. To him, the label of “artist” is a mantle placed onto a person by society, which in the current day has as much to do with trends as it does with the production of great work. He is insistent that making objects is a natural impulse for all humans. Some people make pies or spread-sheets, some make books or sculptures.
It is the pragmatic that draws Thomas. Asked about his influences he asserts that his primary influences do not come from the realm of art but rather from everyday living. “I don’t eat, sleep, and breathe art,” he comments. His discovery of metal-working arose in a similar, practical way. Thomas had been sculpting with stone and asked someone to show him how to forge his own chisel. This was the start of his exploration of forging techniques and after a time he gave up working with stone to work with metal. One of the key aspects of blacksmithing that intrigued Thomas was fact that it isn’t instantly gratifying, and it poses questions that aren’t easily solved. He interned with Tom Joyce (recipient of a MacArthur genius grant) and later worked in Santa Fe as a blacksmith creating items as diverse as fireplace screens and light fixtures, but always continuing to make the objects of “art”.
His current inflatable steel sculpting technique is something he stumbled upon during a demo for one of his sculpture classes. Steel, Thomas says, has a clay-like malleability at high temperatures. He welds forms together which can be heated and injected with pressurized air, causing them to inflate and “grow” into their final shape. The final pieces contain paradoxes: metal molded by air, sensual forms in forceful fetish-finish primary colors gleaned from tractor manufacturers. These sculptures are changeable (as one continuously finds new approaches in their creases, angles, and wrinkles); they allow a dialogue between viewer and work. Thomas says he engages in an ongoing dialogue, a give and take, with his materials. He says, “Art is the science of play”, a creed that Thomas takes to heart, both in his work and in his life.to
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Artist: Jeremy Thomas
Napthalene Magenta
By Jeremy Thomas
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Thomas's current inflatable steel sculpting technique is something he stumbled upon during a demo for one of his sculpture classes. Steel, Thomas says, has a clay-like malleability a...
Category
2010s Abstract Jeremy Thomas Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Don't You Forget About Me, Grey
By Jeremy Thomas
Located in Phoenix, AZ
cold rolled steel, powder coat, and urethane
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Jeremy Thomas Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Betelgeuse Purple
By Jeremy Thomas
Located in Phoenix, AZ
"These inflated objects are grown more than fabricated. Through the process of inflation, the application of the air to the geometric construction defines form at the moment of inflation."
It is the pragmatic that draws Thomas. Asked about his influences he asserts that his primary influences do not come from the realm of art but rather from everyday living. “I don’t eat, sleep, and breathe art,” he comments. His discovery of metal-working arose in a similar, practical way. Thomas had been sculpting with stone and asked someone to show him how to forge his own chisel. This was the start of his exploration of forging techniques and after a time he gave up working with stone to work with metal. One of the key aspects of blacksmithing that intrigued Thomas was fact that it isn’t instantly gratifying, and it poses questions that aren’t easily solved. He interned with Tom Joyce...
Category
2010s Abstract Jeremy Thomas Sculptures
Materials
Cotton, Resin, Vinyl
Sky Grey (Just Wait)
By Jeremy Thomas
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Thomas's current inflatable steel sculpting technique is something he stumbled upon during a demo for one of his sculpture classes. Steel, Thomas says, has a clay-like malleability a...
Category
2010s Abstract Jeremy Thomas Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Pinnacle Expectations
By Jeremy Thomas
Located in Phoenix, AZ
"These inflated objects are grown more than fabricated. Through the process of inflation, the application of the air to the geometric construction defines form at the moment of infla...
Category
2010s Abstract Jeremy Thomas Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Resin, Vinyl
Clumsy Sky Grey
By Jeremy Thomas
Located in Phoenix, AZ
cold rolled steel, powder coat, and urethane
Category
2010s Abstract Jeremy Thomas Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Hidden Blues
By Jeremy Thomas
Located in Phoenix, AZ
forged mild steel and acrylic urethane
Jeremy Thomas is a maker. His work explores objecthood; how a sculpture interacts with its surroundings, how the viewer interacts with a sculp...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jeremy Thomas Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Steel
Strawberry Shortcake
By Jeremy Thomas
Located in Phoenix, AZ
"These inflated objects are grown more than fabricated. Through the process of inflation, the application of the air to the geometric construction defines form at the moment of inflation."
It is the pragmatic that draws Thomas. Asked about his influences he asserts that his primary influences do not come from the realm of art but rather from everyday living. “I don’t eat, sleep, and breathe art,” he comments. His discovery of metal-working arose in a similar, practical way. Thomas had been sculpting with stone and asked someone to show him how to forge his own chisel. This was the start of his exploration of forging techniques and after a time he gave up working with stone to work with metal. One of the key aspects of blacksmithing that intrigued Thomas was fact that it isn’t instantly gratifying, and it poses questions that aren’t easily solved. He interned with Tom Joyce...
Category
2010s Abstract Jeremy Thomas Sculptures
Materials
Cotton, Resin, Vinyl
With 2 Heads
By Jeremy Thomas
Located in Phoenix, AZ
"These inflated objects are grown more than fabricated. Through the process of inflation, the application of the air to the geometric construction defines form at the moment of infla...
Category
2010s Abstract Jeremy Thomas Sculptures
Materials
Cotton, Resin, Vinyl
Pillow Talk
By Jeremy Thomas
Located in Phoenix, AZ
"These inflated objects are grown more than fabricated. Through the process of inflation, the application of the air to the geometric construction defines form at the moment of infla...
Category
2010s Abstract Jeremy Thomas Sculptures
Materials
Cotton, Resin, Vinyl
Prop Green
By Jeremy Thomas
Located in Phoenix, AZ
"These inflated objects are grown more than fabricated. Through the process of inflation, the application of the air to the geometric construction defines form at the moment of infla...
Category
2010s Abstract Jeremy Thomas Sculptures
Materials
Cotton, Resin, Vinyl
Eye for Eye
By Jeremy Thomas
Located in Phoenix, AZ
"These inflated objects are grown more than fabricated. Through the process of inflation, the application of the air to the geometric construction defines form at the moment of infla...
Category
2010s Abstract Jeremy Thomas Sculptures
Materials
Cotton, Resin, Vinyl
Isolation Blue
By Jeremy Thomas
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Thomas's current inflatable steel sculpting technique is something he stumbled upon during a demo for one of his sculpture classes. Steel, Thomas says, has a clay-like malleability a...
Category
2010s Jeremy Thomas Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Snergelly Hose
By Jeremy Thomas
Located in Phoenix, AZ
"These inflated objects are grown more than fabricated. Through the process of inflation, the application of the air to the geometric construction defines form at the moment of inflation."
It is the pragmatic that draws Thomas. Asked about his influences he asserts that his primary influences do not come from the realm of art but rather from everyday living. “I don’t eat, sleep, and breathe art,” he comments. His discovery of metal-working arose in a similar, practical way. Thomas had been sculpting with stone and asked someone to show him how to forge his own chisel. This was the start of his exploration of forging techniques and after a time he gave up working with stone to work with metal. One of the key aspects of blacksmithing that intrigued Thomas was fact that it isn’t instantly gratifying, and it poses questions that aren’t easily solved. He interned with Tom Joyce...
Category
2010s Abstract Jeremy Thomas Sculptures
Materials
Cotton, Resin, Vinyl
When It's Said You're Square
By Jeremy Thomas
Located in Phoenix, AZ
"These inflated objects are grown more than fabricated. Through the process of inflation, the application of the air to the geometric construction defines form at the moment of infla...
Category
2010s Abstract Jeremy Thomas Sculptures
Materials
Cotton, Resin, Vinyl
10 Degrees
By Jeremy Thomas
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Admirers of Jeremy Thomas’ sculpture should be grateful to a thief. Thomas came to the College of Santa Fe to study Studio Arts as a painter and printmaker, both of which he had been doing since high school, even apprenticing with a master printmaker in his native Oklahoma. However, one semester while moving out of his dormitory, with boxes and bags piled around, the wooden box which held all of his brushes and painting supplies...
Category
2010s Abstract Jeremy Thomas Sculptures
Materials
Cotton, Resin, Polyester, Vinyl
Horse Blue
By Jeremy Thomas
Located in Phoenix, AZ
"These inflated objects are grown more than fabricated. Through the process of inflation, the application of the air to the geometric construction defines form at the moment of infla...
Category
2010s Abstract Jeremy Thomas Sculptures
Materials
Cotton, Resin, Vinyl
Full Bloom
By Jeremy Thomas
Located in Phoenix, AZ
"These inflated objects are grown more than fabricated. Through the process of inflation, the application of the air to the geometric construction defines form at the moment of infla...
Category
2010s Abstract Jeremy Thomas Sculptures
Materials
Cotton, Resin, Vinyl
Green streak
By Jeremy Thomas
Located in Phoenix, AZ
"These inflated objects are grown more than fabricated. Through the process of inflation, the application of the air to the geometric construction defines form at the moment of infla...
Category
2010s Abstract Jeremy Thomas Sculptures
Materials
Cotton, Resin, Vinyl
Acura Gold
By Jeremy Thomas
Located in Phoenix, AZ
forged mild steel and acrylic urethane
Jeremy Thomas is a maker. His work explores objecthood; how a sculpture interacts with its surroundings, how the viewer interacts with a sculp...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jeremy Thomas Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Steel
The Sun Also Rises Yellow
By Jeremy Thomas
Located in Phoenix, AZ
stainless steel, vinyl emulsion
Category
2010s Abstract Jeremy Thomas Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
All Lacquered Up White
By Jeremy Thomas
Located in Phoenix, AZ
forged mild steel and acrylic urethane
Jeremy Thomas is a maker. His work explores objecthood; how a sculpture interacts with its surroundings, how the viewer interacts with a sculp...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jeremy Thomas Sculptures
Materials
Steel
In the Sea
By Jeremy Thomas
Located in Phoenix, AZ
"These inflated objects are grown more than fabricated. Through the process of inflation, the application of the air to the geometric construction defines form at the moment of inflation."
It is the pragmatic that draws Thomas. Asked about his influences he asserts that his primary influences do not come from the realm of art but rather from everyday living. “I don’t eat, sleep, and breathe art,” he comments. His discovery of metal-working arose in a similar, practical way. Thomas had been sculpting with stone and asked someone to show him how to forge his own chisel. This was the start of his exploration of forging techniques and after a time he gave up working with stone to work with metal. One of the key aspects of blacksmithing that intrigued Thomas was fact that it isn’t instantly gratifying, and it poses questions that aren’t easily solved. He interned with Tom Joyce...
Category
2010s Abstract Jeremy Thomas Sculptures
Materials
Cotton, Resin, Vinyl
L V Silver
By Jeremy Thomas
Located in Phoenix, AZ
"These inflated objects are grown more than fabricated. Through the process of inflation, the application of the air to the geometric construction defines form at the moment of infla...
Category
2010s Abstract Jeremy Thomas Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Resin, Vinyl
Space Dust
By Jeremy Thomas
Located in Phoenix, AZ
"These inflated objects are grown more than fabricated. Through the process of inflation, the application of the air to the geometric construction defines form at the moment of infla...
Category
2010s Abstract Jeremy Thomas Sculptures
Materials
Cotton, Resin, Vinyl
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