James David Thomas
Fine Art
Website
https://jamesdavidthomas.artspan.com/carousel.php?galleryID=302907
ARTIST PROFILE:
James David Thomas“Imagine Euclid standing before the horizon and devising geometry, counting, which is a way to know the landscape. The city grid, for example, is painting people, their activities, and record.”
-James David Thomas
In his Urban Archeology painting series in particular, James David Thomas plays the Euclidean role, observing from on high the shimmering lights and crisscrossed streets of Los Angeles, all signs of the human element save flesh and blood themselves. Recalling the quality of light of painters such as Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet, and Charles Daubigney, Thomas delights in the depiction of landscapes in a twenty-first century world increasingly absorbed into the digital and the mechanical. Wide-open, broad, and sweeping, as our own personal worlds become smaller and smaller, Thomas's scenic views relate his love of nature and the pastoral, fighting what may seem like a foregone conclusion as the environment becomes more and more, in the artist's own words, “marginalized.” And indeed, his series High Gain—Hollywood remarkably demonstrates this tension between the urban and the rural; consisting of blue night skies interrupted by the glowing, ubiquitous Hollywood sign, the presence of humanity is inescapable in the forms of wood and steel but also in the light pollution that artificially brightens the Los Angeles sky.
James David Thomas“Imagine Euclid standing before the horizon and devising geometry, counting, which is a way to know the landscape. The city grid, for example, is painting people, their activities, and record.”
-James David Thomas
In his Urban Archeology painting series in particular, James David Thomas plays the Euclidean role, observing from on high the shimmering lights and crisscrossed streets of Los Angeles, all signs of the human element save flesh and blood themselves. Recalling the quality of light of painters such as Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet, and Charles Daubigney, Thomas delights in the depiction of landscapes in a twenty-first century world increasingly absorbed into the digital and the mechanical. Wide-open, broad, and sweeping, as our own personal worlds become smaller and smaller, Thomas's scenic views relate his love of nature and the pastoral, fighting what may seem like a foregone conclusion as the environment becomes more and more, in the artist's own words, “marginalized.” And indeed, his series High Gain—Hollywood remarkably demonstrates this tension between the urban and the rural; consisting of blue night skies interrupted by the glowing, ubiquitous Hollywood sign, the presence of humanity is inescapable in the forms of wood and steel but also in the light pollution that artificially brightens the Los Angeles sky.
High Gain Series #12
2017 Oil, gold leaf on wood
10" x 30"
2017 Oil, gold leaf on wood
10" x 30"
Jewel Box Nightline # 12
2026 Oil, gold leaf on wood
9" x 12"
2026 Oil, gold leaf on wood
9" x 12"
Echo Park Nocturne
2000 Mixed media on garnet paper,
37" x 60"
2000 Mixed media on garnet paper,
37" x 60"
Haiku Series #14
2015 Oil on wood.
8" x 8"
2015 Oil on wood.
8" x 8"
Elegy for Homer
2015 Oil on wood.
8" x 8"
2015 Oil on wood.
8" x 8"
For Bocklin
2010 Oil on paper.
26" x 20"
2010 Oil on paper.
26" x 20"
The Blue Veil
2023 Oil, gold leaf on wood.
60"x 48"
2023 Oil, gold leaf on wood.
60"x 48"
The Singularity
2023 Oil gold leaf on wood.
60"x48"
2023 Oil gold leaf on wood.
60"x48"
Haiku
2024 Oil, gold leaf on wood.
8"x 8"
2024 Oil, gold leaf on wood.
8"x 8"
Event
2023 Oil, gold leaf on wood.
30"x30'
2023 Oil, gold leaf on wood.
30"x30'
Jewel Box Nightline #3
2026 Oil, gold leaf on wood.
9"x12"
2026 Oil, gold leaf on wood.
9"x12"
Thomas comes by his love of landscape honestly. After a childhood spent in rural areas, the flatness and clarity of the Mojave Desert, he made himself at home in Los Angeles, where the interaction between humans and nature, celebrity and the ordinary, served as his inspiration. High Gain—Hollywood reflects the ambivalence that is the life of an Angeleno; referring to the amount of reflectivity of a screen, the term “High Gain” also functions for Thomas as a metaphor for the “money” and “glamour” of the city—a rueful term that sums up Thomas' feelings about the shiny, artificial quality of Los Angeles and how that quality interacts with the landscape surrounding the gleaming spires. Adding to the dualistic nature of his works is his use of gold leaf, which he applies as highlights to emphasize the unnatural, out-of-place quality of light he sees in the city skyline. He cites Richard Diebenkorn as having been a source of knowledge in the technique of working at a distance, while Los Angeles native Peter Shire taught him to “work smart.”
Thomas repeatedly stresses the importance of appreciating and enjoying nature as opposed to our screen-filled, increasingly indoors-y lives. And he has committed both the macro and the micro of the world onto canvas: the former with his cinematic views of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas; and the latter with his Haiku series, where the ripples in water and passing shifts of light on fish scales are captured with intimate, precise detail. When asked what he aims to evoke in his practice, Thomas replied: “A reverence for beauty as a worthwhile concept.” While his works don't feature faces or bodies, they are hardly shying away from the figurative. By depicting the effects of humanity on an ever-changing landscape, Thomas paints a portrait of humanity and human activities that sends a more powerful message than any portrait could convey, and challenge the viewers' notions of what beauty can, and should mean, in a rapidly-developing world.
Thomas repeatedly stresses the importance of appreciating and enjoying nature as opposed to our screen-filled, increasingly indoors-y lives. And he has committed both the macro and the micro of the world onto canvas: the former with his cinematic views of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas; and the latter with his Haiku series, where the ripples in water and passing shifts of light on fish scales are captured with intimate, precise detail. When asked what he aims to evoke in his practice, Thomas replied: “A reverence for beauty as a worthwhile concept.” While his works don't feature faces or bodies, they are hardly shying away from the figurative. By depicting the effects of humanity on an ever-changing landscape, Thomas paints a portrait of humanity and human activities that sends a more powerful message than any portrait could convey, and challenge the viewers' notions of what beauty can, and should mean, in a rapidly-developing world.
Between Heaven and Earth
2014
Oil, gold leaf on wood
48" x 24"
2014
Oil, gold leaf on wood
48" x 24"
"Lockwood DeForest has found a legitimate heir to his moon franchise in James David Thomas, who has three memorable paintings in the "Tonalism Now" show. "La Luna en el Labrinto - State II" captures the spectral beauty of the full moon setting over water through a beguiling combination of oil paint and wood grain. One is never quite sure whether the gestures of the painter end, and the contours of the surface begin. It's a thoroughly modern image, but its totally Tonal."
Charles Donelan, Santa Barbara Independent, October 2013
"James David Thomas's works are infused with a sense of peace. In "Haiku for November 9" (2004) a vessel waits in a limbo of blue and gray while exactly 4 drops of gold leaf fall from the sky like grace. A series of six small works in oil and gold leaf were painted on heavily grained wood panels that provided texture. In Thomas's paintings of Koi the grain doubles as rippling water. In one of the six, "Window of Appearances" (2004) gold leaf also sifts downward toward a simple Japanese teacup, while a rare gemstone hovers over everything like the third eye of Buddha."
Arlene McKanic, ARTNEWS Reviews New York, NY March 2005.
"James David Thomas's explorations of nature are informed by both Western and Eastern traditions. There is a sense of mystery to certain kinds of space, which conceals as much as it reveals. The Artist's mother was Japanese, and so there is in his work a finesse and sense of the magical moment that connects him to her culture. In a small work entitled "Singularity" (2004) the center is devoted to a spiraling galaxy of stars, beneath which two fish swim in the darkness together. The combination of image is lyrical, almost to the point of being beyond words: two kinds of nature poetically evoked.."
Jonathan Goodman, "Romancing Nature" Exhibition Catalog 2004
"Compressed scale and the keen blend of medium and image lend boldness to James David Thomas' series of tiny square-format paintings on wood panel. Currents of water in the imagery interact with the actual wood grain in the wood base, a case of image-making and host media being locked in an unusual tight embrace."
Josef Woodard, Santa Barbara News Press, January 2004
"Thomas' paintings impart a panoramic sweep. He possesses the ability to capture precise and subtle atmospheric color gradations without lapsing into decorative realism. Thomas avoids being too precise, however, and the results evoke a visual engagement that suggests rather than avers."
Gregg Morris, Willamette Week, Portland , OR 1992
"Thomas makes no illusion to the fact that our methods for aggressing against nature grow more diabolic with every passing year, and that the very mood he paints - the peaceful introspection that comes when one senses oneself as being in harmony with the universe - is on the endangered list."
Kristine McKenna, Los Angeles Times Art Review, July 1990
Charles Donelan, Santa Barbara Independent, October 2013
"James David Thomas's works are infused with a sense of peace. In "Haiku for November 9" (2004) a vessel waits in a limbo of blue and gray while exactly 4 drops of gold leaf fall from the sky like grace. A series of six small works in oil and gold leaf were painted on heavily grained wood panels that provided texture. In Thomas's paintings of Koi the grain doubles as rippling water. In one of the six, "Window of Appearances" (2004) gold leaf also sifts downward toward a simple Japanese teacup, while a rare gemstone hovers over everything like the third eye of Buddha."
Arlene McKanic, ARTNEWS Reviews New York, NY March 2005.
"James David Thomas's explorations of nature are informed by both Western and Eastern traditions. There is a sense of mystery to certain kinds of space, which conceals as much as it reveals. The Artist's mother was Japanese, and so there is in his work a finesse and sense of the magical moment that connects him to her culture. In a small work entitled "Singularity" (2004) the center is devoted to a spiraling galaxy of stars, beneath which two fish swim in the darkness together. The combination of image is lyrical, almost to the point of being beyond words: two kinds of nature poetically evoked.."
Jonathan Goodman, "Romancing Nature" Exhibition Catalog 2004
"Compressed scale and the keen blend of medium and image lend boldness to James David Thomas' series of tiny square-format paintings on wood panel. Currents of water in the imagery interact with the actual wood grain in the wood base, a case of image-making and host media being locked in an unusual tight embrace."
Josef Woodard, Santa Barbara News Press, January 2004
"Thomas' paintings impart a panoramic sweep. He possesses the ability to capture precise and subtle atmospheric color gradations without lapsing into decorative realism. Thomas avoids being too precise, however, and the results evoke a visual engagement that suggests rather than avers."
Gregg Morris, Willamette Week, Portland , OR 1992
"Thomas makes no illusion to the fact that our methods for aggressing against nature grow more diabolic with every passing year, and that the very mood he paints - the peaceful introspection that comes when one senses oneself as being in harmony with the universe - is on the endangered list."
Kristine McKenna, Los Angeles Times Art Review, July 1990
Education
1984 Otis Art Institute of the Parsons School of Design, B.F.A., Painting
1980 Barstow Community College
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Cross Section. Forest and Ocean Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2018 The Wheel. Skidmore Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, CA
2016 The Arc of Days, Paintings, Skidmore Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, CA
2011 Terry Martin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2010 Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York City, NY
2009 Frederic Stern Gallery, Pasadena, CA
2007 Cal State University at Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA
2006 Sullivan Goss Gallery, Montecito, CA
2006 Plaza Gallery, Oxnard, CA
2005 Art Center DA, Kyung Buk, Korea
2004 SCAPE, Corona Del Mar, CA
2003 Terrence Rogers Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
1998 Mendenhall Gallery, Pasadena, CA
1995 Jamison/Thomas Gallery. Portland, OR
1995 Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1994 Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1993 Jamison/Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
1992 Lucy Berman Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1992 Jamison/Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
1990 Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1990 Lucy Berman Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1988 Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014 Grand & Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2013 The Face of California The Santa Paula Museum, Santa Paula, CA
2013 Tonalism” The Present Moment Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2013 Grand Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2012 100 Grand Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2012 Cityscape II George Billis Gallery, Culver City, CA
2010 Grand Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2011 10th California Landscape Painters John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
2011 Sea Level SCAPE, Corona Del Mar, CA
2010 100 Grand Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2009 Summer Group Show, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York City, NY
2009 100 Grand Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2008 Group Show. Frederic Stern Gallery, Pasadena, CA
2008 Then and Now Frederic Stern Gallery, Pasadena, CA
2007 The Urban Myth Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA
200 If the Oceans Don't Make It, How Will We?", Walter Wickiser Gallery, NYC, NY
2006 Up to the Surface Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA
2006 Security Terrence Rogers Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
2005 Gallery Artists Part II Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York City, NY
2005 Trees and Trains Terrence Rogers Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
2004 Romancing Nature Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York City, NY
2004 "10th Annual Group Invitational Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004 The Waters Re-Glitterized SCAPE, Corona Del Mar, CA
2003 "8th Annual Small Images Show Sullivan/Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2001 Black and White, and One Blue Too CS Fine Art, Montrose, CA
2001 Selected Artists Terrence Rogers , Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
2001 Treasures Terrence Rogers Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA,
1999 & Art Auction 8", Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1997 Traditions Abandoned, Retained Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
1996 City of Vapor Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1995 Fifteen Years Jamison/Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
1994 External Views, Internal Perceptions Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA
1994 Public Encounters Bush Art Center, Salem, OR
1993 The Art of Microsoft Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1993 Daylights Fantasy The Nights Dark Side Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
1993 Cityscapes Hope Street Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991 The Landscape, A 20th Century Vision, Eastern Washington University, Spokane, WA
1991 Urban Landscape Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park
1991 Earth Loma Linda University Gallery, Riverside, CA
1991 The Edge of Night Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA
1991 Spacious Skies Rutgers Barclay Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1991 East West Perspectives Los Angeles Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
1989 Small Works Jamison/Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
1988 If the Shoe Fits LA Artcore Center, Los Angeles, CA
1987 Emerging California Artists Los Angeles Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
1986 "86th Annual Invitational San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
1986 Desert West Annual, Antelope Valley College, Lancaster, CA
1986 Long Beach Art Association, Long Beach, CA
1983 James David Thomas and Dan O'Connell, Otis /Parsons N Gallery. Los Angeles, CA
Bibliography
2013 "Tonalism then and Now", Santa Barbara Independent, October 2013
2012 "The Western Landscape", Southwest Art Magazine, February 2012
2011 “10th California Landscape Painters”, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA Aug 11
2010 “James David Thomas”, Exhibition Catalog, Walter Wickiser Gallery. NY,NY.
2010 “Artnews Full Color Ad, September 2010
2007 "The Urban Myth", Review, Santa Barbara, New Press" Santa Barbara, CA
2007 "Haiku Works" Exhibition Catalog, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York City, NY
2005 "Gallery Artists Part II", Exhibition Catalog, Walter Wickiser Gallery, NYC ,NY
2005 "Romancing Nature", Art News Art Review, March 2005
2004 Art News Full Color Ad, December, 2004
2004 "Romancing Nature", Exhibition Catalog, Walter Wickiser Gallery, NYC, NY
2004 "Media Space Place, Scale and Culture in a Media Age", Routledge Publications
2003 "Something Spatial in the Air", Routledge Publications, London, UK
2003 "Big Ideas, Small Packages", Art Review, SB News-Press, Santa Barbara, CA
1999 “Hemispheres In-Flight Magazine, Cover and Profile. United Airlines, October 1999
1998 "City of Vapor" American Artist Magazine, July 1998
1996 "Trends in Representational Painting", Southwest Art Magazine, February 1996
1992 "Contemporary Landscape Painting", Artweek, September 1992
1991 "Issue Earth", Exhibition Catalog, Loma Linda University, Riverside, CA
1991 Journal North Art Review, Santa Fe, NM April 1991
1990 Los Angeles Times Art Review, July 24, 1990
1989 Los Angeles Times Art Review, July 21, 1989
1989 Los Angeles Times Art Review, March 21, 1988
1987 Exhibition Catalog, Emerging California Artists LA Design Center, Los Angeles
1986 San Diego Union Art Review, October 20, 1986
Selected Collections
rvices, Corporate HQ., Big Timber, MT
Andrew & Lolo Clayton, Shanghai, China
Gabriel Ghio & John Guerry, Hidden Hills, CA
Samantha Barnes, Greenwich, CT
Greg Theresa Cook, Dallas, TX
John Van de Kamp, Pasadena, CA
Xillary Twil, Los Angeles, CA
Robert Wagner, Los Angeles, CA
Roger and Pamela Birnbaum, Beverly Hills, CA
Rick Rickertsen, Santa Monica, CA
Catherine Giesecke, Lost Creek Ranch, Greycliffe, MT
Susan Appel, Los Angeles, CA
Brad Clarissa Weirick, Flintridge, CA
Victoria Jackson, Santa Barbara, CA
Kevin Coop, Lake Sherwood, CA
Paul Jenkin, Los Angeles, CA
John and Kathy Carl, Geneva, Switzerland
Lindley Karstens & Amber Katherine, Mar Vista, CA
Tracy Marsh and Lisa Larkin, Los Angeles, CA
Peter Donna Shire, Los Angeles, CA
Stuart and Ursula Wolff, Westlake Village, CA
Josh Leo, Nashville, TN
Bryan Cook, Santa Monica, CA
John Nichols, Taos, NM
Leigh Chapman, Pasadena, CA
Mr.& Mrs. Monte Rifkin, Palm Desert, CA
Trink & Ernie Schurian, Vancouver, WA
Shelley Hochberg, New York City, NY
Mary Jensen, Santa Clarita, CA
Robert Wagner, Los Angeles, CA
Aldis Browne, La Jolla, CA
Victor Cosentino, Northridge, CA
Claudio Stickar and Sun Choe, Seoul, South Korea
Saks Fifth Avenue, Portland, OR
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Oracle Corporation, Redwood City, CA
Namura Securities, Los Angeles, CA
Homestore.com, Westlake Village, CA
Nabisco Corporation, Atlanta, GA
Southern California Gas Company, Los Angeles, CA
1984 Otis Art Institute of the Parsons School of Design, B.F.A., Painting
1980 Barstow Community College
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Cross Section. Forest and Ocean Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2018 The Wheel. Skidmore Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, CA
2016 The Arc of Days, Paintings, Skidmore Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, CA
2011 Terry Martin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2010 Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York City, NY
2009 Frederic Stern Gallery, Pasadena, CA
2007 Cal State University at Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA
2006 Sullivan Goss Gallery, Montecito, CA
2006 Plaza Gallery, Oxnard, CA
2005 Art Center DA, Kyung Buk, Korea
2004 SCAPE, Corona Del Mar, CA
2003 Terrence Rogers Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
1998 Mendenhall Gallery, Pasadena, CA
1995 Jamison/Thomas Gallery. Portland, OR
1995 Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1994 Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1993 Jamison/Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
1992 Lucy Berman Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1992 Jamison/Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
1990 Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1990 Lucy Berman Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1988 Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014 Grand & Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2013 The Face of California The Santa Paula Museum, Santa Paula, CA
2013 Tonalism” The Present Moment Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2013 Grand Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2012 100 Grand Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2012 Cityscape II George Billis Gallery, Culver City, CA
2010 Grand Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2011 10th California Landscape Painters John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
2011 Sea Level SCAPE, Corona Del Mar, CA
2010 100 Grand Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2009 Summer Group Show, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York City, NY
2009 100 Grand Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2008 Group Show. Frederic Stern Gallery, Pasadena, CA
2008 Then and Now Frederic Stern Gallery, Pasadena, CA
2007 The Urban Myth Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA
200 If the Oceans Don't Make It, How Will We?", Walter Wickiser Gallery, NYC, NY
2006 Up to the Surface Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA
2006 Security Terrence Rogers Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
2005 Gallery Artists Part II Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York City, NY
2005 Trees and Trains Terrence Rogers Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
2004 Romancing Nature Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York City, NY
2004 "10th Annual Group Invitational Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004 The Waters Re-Glitterized SCAPE, Corona Del Mar, CA
2003 "8th Annual Small Images Show Sullivan/Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2001 Black and White, and One Blue Too CS Fine Art, Montrose, CA
2001 Selected Artists Terrence Rogers , Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
2001 Treasures Terrence Rogers Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA,
1999 & Art Auction 8", Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1997 Traditions Abandoned, Retained Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
1996 City of Vapor Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1995 Fifteen Years Jamison/Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
1994 External Views, Internal Perceptions Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA
1994 Public Encounters Bush Art Center, Salem, OR
1993 The Art of Microsoft Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1993 Daylights Fantasy The Nights Dark Side Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
1993 Cityscapes Hope Street Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991 The Landscape, A 20th Century Vision, Eastern Washington University, Spokane, WA
1991 Urban Landscape Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park
1991 Earth Loma Linda University Gallery, Riverside, CA
1991 The Edge of Night Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA
1991 Spacious Skies Rutgers Barclay Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1991 East West Perspectives Los Angeles Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
1989 Small Works Jamison/Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
1988 If the Shoe Fits LA Artcore Center, Los Angeles, CA
1987 Emerging California Artists Los Angeles Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
1986 "86th Annual Invitational San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
1986 Desert West Annual, Antelope Valley College, Lancaster, CA
1986 Long Beach Art Association, Long Beach, CA
1983 James David Thomas and Dan O'Connell, Otis /Parsons N Gallery. Los Angeles, CA
Bibliography
2013 "Tonalism then and Now", Santa Barbara Independent, October 2013
2012 "The Western Landscape", Southwest Art Magazine, February 2012
2011 “10th California Landscape Painters”, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA Aug 11
2010 “James David Thomas”, Exhibition Catalog, Walter Wickiser Gallery. NY,NY.
2010 “Artnews Full Color Ad, September 2010
2007 "The Urban Myth", Review, Santa Barbara, New Press" Santa Barbara, CA
2007 "Haiku Works" Exhibition Catalog, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York City, NY
2005 "Gallery Artists Part II", Exhibition Catalog, Walter Wickiser Gallery, NYC ,NY
2005 "Romancing Nature", Art News Art Review, March 2005
2004 Art News Full Color Ad, December, 2004
2004 "Romancing Nature", Exhibition Catalog, Walter Wickiser Gallery, NYC, NY
2004 "Media Space Place, Scale and Culture in a Media Age", Routledge Publications
2003 "Something Spatial in the Air", Routledge Publications, London, UK
2003 "Big Ideas, Small Packages", Art Review, SB News-Press, Santa Barbara, CA
1999 “Hemispheres In-Flight Magazine, Cover and Profile. United Airlines, October 1999
1998 "City of Vapor" American Artist Magazine, July 1998
1996 "Trends in Representational Painting", Southwest Art Magazine, February 1996
1992 "Contemporary Landscape Painting", Artweek, September 1992
1991 "Issue Earth", Exhibition Catalog, Loma Linda University, Riverside, CA
1991 Journal North Art Review, Santa Fe, NM April 1991
1990 Los Angeles Times Art Review, July 24, 1990
1989 Los Angeles Times Art Review, July 21, 1989
1989 Los Angeles Times Art Review, March 21, 1988
1987 Exhibition Catalog, Emerging California Artists LA Design Center, Los Angeles
1986 San Diego Union Art Review, October 20, 1986
Selected Collections
rvices, Corporate HQ., Big Timber, MT
Andrew & Lolo Clayton, Shanghai, China
Gabriel Ghio & John Guerry, Hidden Hills, CA
Samantha Barnes, Greenwich, CT
Greg Theresa Cook, Dallas, TX
John Van de Kamp, Pasadena, CA
Xillary Twil, Los Angeles, CA
Robert Wagner, Los Angeles, CA
Roger and Pamela Birnbaum, Beverly Hills, CA
Rick Rickertsen, Santa Monica, CA
Catherine Giesecke, Lost Creek Ranch, Greycliffe, MT
Susan Appel, Los Angeles, CA
Brad Clarissa Weirick, Flintridge, CA
Victoria Jackson, Santa Barbara, CA
Kevin Coop, Lake Sherwood, CA
Paul Jenkin, Los Angeles, CA
John and Kathy Carl, Geneva, Switzerland
Lindley Karstens & Amber Katherine, Mar Vista, CA
Tracy Marsh and Lisa Larkin, Los Angeles, CA
Peter Donna Shire, Los Angeles, CA
Stuart and Ursula Wolff, Westlake Village, CA
Josh Leo, Nashville, TN
Bryan Cook, Santa Monica, CA
John Nichols, Taos, NM
Leigh Chapman, Pasadena, CA
Mr.& Mrs. Monte Rifkin, Palm Desert, CA
Trink & Ernie Schurian, Vancouver, WA
Shelley Hochberg, New York City, NY
Mary Jensen, Santa Clarita, CA
Robert Wagner, Los Angeles, CA
Aldis Browne, La Jolla, CA
Victor Cosentino, Northridge, CA
Claudio Stickar and Sun Choe, Seoul, South Korea
Saks Fifth Avenue, Portland, OR
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Oracle Corporation, Redwood City, CA
Namura Securities, Los Angeles, CA
Homestore.com, Westlake Village, CA
Nabisco Corporation, Atlanta, GA
Southern California Gas Company, Los Angeles, CA
James David Thomas
Fine Art
Website
https://jamesdavidthomas.artspan.com/carousel.php?galleryID=302907
Fine Art
Website
https://jamesdavidthomas.artspan.com/carousel.php?galleryID=302907