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Just finished this small wall relief. The natural light in the office really makes it sing. . . Ponderosa Green, 2021 . #jeremythomas #Jeremythomassculpture #jeremythomasstudio #colorform #postminimal #post20thcentury #monochome #contemporary #3d #Kunst #sculpture #air #pressure #volume #process #procedure #미술 #조각 #steel #air #アート #彫刻 فن# #pink #speakforthetrees #green #wallrelief https://www.instagram.com/p/CNTCNOchJmn/?igshid=6bm3cm6tf997

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I have been painting new pieces over the past couple week. This is a detail form one of the wall reliefs. The holes in my work are the point of origin for each piece, all of the work grows from that point. We all have a point of origin that leaves its trace. . . Hashtags #jeremythomas #Jeremythomassculpture #jeremythomasstudio #colorform #postminimal #post20thcentery #contemporay #3d #Kunst #sculpture #air #pressure #volume #process #procedure #미술 #조각 #steel #air #アート #彫刻 #فن #hole #pink #blue #water #sky https://www.instagram.com/p/CM0BBpRlJ4l/?igshid=rsj1vhv64m0b

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dead account

Thank you to everyone who has paid attention to what I have been doing over the past years. I find that Tumblr is no longer a venue that is resonating with my needs and I have neglected to use it very often and find social media as whole determined to my studio practice. With that said, I will no longer be using this account and will be deleting it before the end of the year. If you wish to know what is occurring in the studio. please visit my webpage jeremythomasstudio.com or jeremythomassculpture.com.  and  sign up for my email newsletter that is sent out every few months with information about upcoming exhibitions and completed projects. You can also find my work on Instagram at jeremythomasstudio. Thank you for your support over the time on this blog formate. 

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Oscillation in Color and Sound is joint exhibition with the amazing duo Pfeifer & kreutzer opens tonight @galeriebender from 17-21 hr this should be fun! @pfeiferanne @bernhardkreutzer. . #osillation #color #kineticsculpture #soundart #steel #kunst #kunstmünchen #inflated #breath #geometric #Jeremythomas #annepfeifer #bernhardkreutzer (at Galerie Renate Bender) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxjy_4RlrlJ/?igshid=lw0wmt9ew1wp

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Many thanks to my friends Michael Post and Heiner Thiel for including my work in the up coming edition of Embodying Color: Echantillons. At Imprint Galerie Crest France. https://www.instagram.com/p/BxJX_T7leQt/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=6mws4cakbmet

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Thank you to everyone that came out to the opening last night @charlottejacksonfineart. Spending the day watching the last of the three #winddrawing in progress @ccasantafe . Think how great last night was, to see old fiends and meet new ones. Want a great night. #thankyou #jeremythomassculpture #santafenewmexico #workinprogess #drawing #catchingair #slowdown #pencil #paper #art #wind #currents #updraft #newmexicotrue (at Santa Fe, New Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv7ffVel7zK/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1841ew28pehui

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Come and see “Norepinephrine Silver” at Structural Consciousness opening Friday 5-7 @charlottejacksonfineart #artinsantafe #artoninstagram #opening #railyard #jeremythomas #sculpture #silver #inyourbrain #chemicals (at Charlotte Jackson Fine Art) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv0SuOHlkwz/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=a28eclgg7ujn

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The last few pieces hanging at the powdercoater for “structural consciousness” opening @charlottejacksonfineart April 5th. #danger #hot #donottouch #wellhung #pink #orange #Blue (at Kaehr Corporation) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvU64xflpfm/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=gkrbs3ujft05

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the press release for the next exhibition

Jeremy Thomas: Structural Consciousness

April 5 - May 5, 2019

Opening Reception: Friday, April 5, 5 - 7 PM

How do we see? Where do emotions come from? Can we trace the mysterious pathways of perception, cognition, recognition, and emotion that weave and intertwine within the body and the mind? What structures, what essential base pairs of life, society, and consciousness, form the matrix beneath it all?

Jeremy Thomas is always asking questions. He follows threads of inquiry carefully, persistently; using his art as the net he casts out into the dark as he goes. This continuing exploration colors (quite literally) the shape and form of the work he creates. In this way, each series of work from Thomas forms a kind of record – not of answers – but of a process of investigation, an experience of the world, seen through a unique lens.

The work Thomas brings to Structural Consciousness is no exception. The primary installation of sculptures comes from a new series, years in the making. Those familiar with Thomas’ inflated steel sculptures, will recognize the basic format of the pieces. However, a closer look reveals a new structural vocabulary at work here. Longer, multi-faceted, and complicated with new and repeating shapes, these forms are Thomas’ artistic interpretations of the chemical structures of neurotransmitters such as serotonin, norepinephrine, dopamine, and glutamate. These fundamental and essential forms opened up a new set of geometries to Thomas: benzene rings, strings of linked circles and hexagons, the varied patterns of carbon atoms. Each piece, a separate part of the puzzle, interacts with the next – forming a whole that describes a larger, shifting balance of chemical interactions in the brain.

Surrounding this installation are pieces from Thomas’ Air Paintings series. Vividly colored, with a startling clarity and luminous quality – these acrylic on paper works at first seem only to connect with the sculptural pieces in their varied and bright coloring. Closer inspection shows a fascinating interaction between the forms in the paintings and the sculptures. A deeper look still brings another layer of connection – like the sculptures, these pieces rely on air for their forms. Thomas drew wave-forms across the paper, overlaid with layers of paint, to which he applied compressed air to flare out and massage the painted shapes. In the same way that he uses compressed air to inflate his sculptures and is only partially able to determine the ways the steel may pucker, bulge, and twist – with these paintings, the addition of air added an element of chance, enhancing the barely contained energy of the paintings’ layers of fans and flecks and flared waves.

The origin of both series were two artist residencies which set Thomas off on his new line of investigation. Two years ago, Thomas had the opportunity to spend time at Kremer Pigments in Germany. The famous pigment-makers served as an inspiration for a deep dive into color. Thomas moved beyond the pigments’ history and geography and delved instead into their chemistry. Going so far as teaching himself chemistry in order to be able to begin to explore the chemical structures of colors, Thomas was fascinated to learn that it was often the structure of the molecules which determine a color. His first impulse was to explore those chemical structures with his sculpture – and he began to create complex 3D computer models of various forms (drawings were inadequate to achieve the complicated geometries). Not wanting to just create models, Thomas went on to hone and refine his interpretations of these forms. This exploration eventually led Thomas to make a connection between the chemical structures of color and the chemical structures of the neurotransmitters in the brain – where the recognition and emotional qualities of colors are perceived and formed.

Another fortuitous artist residency at Ucross, Wyoming, forced Thomas to pursue that exploration of color and form without his usual tools. Away from his forge and metal-working tools, Thomas returned to paper, pencils, and paint. However, he did realize that he could still utilize air as a common element with his sculpture. With the Air Paintings, this meant using compressed air to manipulate the paint. With his Wind Drawings, Thomas set up elaborate rigs of paper and pencils, bound by wire to twigs, trees, fence posts, to use the wind itself to track movement. These Wind Drawings, currently on view at CCA Santa Fe, form a fascinating counterpoint to the work presented in Structural Consciousness.

The works in this exhibition touch on the unseen structures of our world. Air – we can’t see it, yet it connects us all, a matrix between objects, within our lungs.  The molecules and atoms that invisibly create our visible world. The molecules that create vision it’s self. Beyond this is the further realization that a molecule of indigo pigment or of dopamine both contain the same basic ingredients: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen. It is the patterns that they make that matter, their structures which make them unique.

Whether it is a brilliant blue humped and finned sculpture or an intense yellow painting of layered edges and waves, Thomas’ art is the tangible result of wonder.  It is proof that the world is worth query. That exploration and experience have value. That it matters how we see …

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Stoped by the CCA today, the light was absolutely perfect on Pistachio violet. #cca #nofilter #naturallight #kremerpigments @kremerpigmente @ccasantafe @charlottejacksonfineart #jeremythomassculpture #santafenewmexico (at Cca) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuCrf1FF6X9/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=b583edvfhdbm

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Thank you to everyone who came out to the opening of Unintended Concequences @ccasantafe last night I was truly humbled by the turnout. Thank you. https://www.instagram.com/p/BtaAIhoFIBx/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=900d5xhr1b98

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Making a new wind drawing today @ccasantafe. Stop by and experience the air of the day. #slowdown #bepresent #inthe moment #drawing #drawinginprogress (at Center for Contemporary Arts) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtY2NDDl0bn/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=hlnyb0lgnhgw

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Tonight is the #openingnight @ccasantafe works courtesy of @charlottejacksonfineart Public opening from 6-8 PM. Bring your family, bring your friends. I’ll see you there. #sculpture #painting #drawing #heavymetal #wellheadyellow #itwasnotallyellow #inflation #air #artinsantafe #nmtrue https://www.instagram.com/p/BtWGP3vlSfT/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=19wlx9nd5yfne

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Back to finish up the installation. Thanks for all the hard work@ccasantafe #artinsantafe #exhibition #jeremythomas #jeremythomassculpture #contemporaryart #contemporarysculpture #aquikie #newcamera (at Center for Contemporary Arts) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtNJ6aQlBzw/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1fvzryazwdvre

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Adult content

I find it Great! that 7 photos of my sculptures were blocked in violation of the community Guidlines. this to me is interesting that even a computer algorithm findes that the forms are erotic in nature. I always thought that the viewer brought there own baggage to the work and that the erotic element in the work was subjective, brought on by the viewer's life experience. This now seems to be quantifiable  threw calculation and not just self experience. Quite interesting. 

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Enjoyed the day in Denver exploring the museums and paintings. The Tara Donovan exhibit at the MCA was one of the best. https://www.instagram.com/p/BrWWfsyFMDc/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ml2eq55gcli4

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Vote it is your right, duty and responsibility! Participate in your democracy! #ivoted🇺🇸 #responsibility #duty #democracy #yourvoice #yourliberty #yourright https://www.instagram.com/p/BpuiGv8F8dm/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=13yumzvxurnzg