Patrick Thomas (graphic artist)

Patrick Thomas at Woodbridge & Rees gallery, London. May 2011.

Patrick Thomas was born in Waterloo, Liverpool in 1965. He studied at Central Saint Martins School of Art and The Royal College of Art. In 1991 he relocated to Barcelona where in 1997 he founded Studio laVista, a multidisciplinary art space, silkscreen press and archive. Currently he lives and works in Berlin and Barcelona.[1] In 2005, he was as elected a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI).[2] Since October 2013 he is a professor of kommunikationsdesign at Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart.

He has been described by Steven Heller as an ‘iconographiste,’ combining iconic images to create a powerful message and make them his own. In 2009, Khoi Vinh (former Design Director of New York Times) described his work as ‘gorgeously screened, conceptually challenging graphic art as commentary.’[3]

In recent years he has exhibited his limited-edition silkscreens worldwide including solo and collective exhibitions at the New York Times, the International Center of Photography and the School of Visual Arts in New York, the Nelly Duff Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona and the Palau de la Virreina in Barcelona, the Narrows Gallery in Melbourne, the Salvador Dalí Museum in Florida, the Santralistanbul Contemporary Art Center in Istanbul, the Museum für Gestaltung in Zurich, the Triennale di Milano in Milan, the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam, the Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt, and the Ginza Graphic Gallery in Tokyo.

Works

Publications

Black and White, Paperback, 96 pp. Studio laVista, Barcelona, Spring 2005, Languages: English, Spanish, Catalan, ISBN 84-609-5046-8 [4]

Protest Stencil Toolkit Paperback, 144 pp. Laurence King Publishing, London, May 2011, Language: English, ISBN 978-1-85669-766-8.

Thomas' work has been featured in political publications such as Head to Head: Political Portraits, edited by Museum of Design Zürich

In the past he has contributed to the New York Times Book Review [5][6][7][8][9] and Op-Ed sections[10][11][12]

See also

Sources

  1. ↑ "Saatchi Online Artist Profile: Patrick Thomas; Barcelona, Spain saatchionline.com/profiles". Saatchionline.com. Retrieved 2011-03-01.
  2. ↑ "Patrick Thomas". Patrick Thomas. Retrieved 2011-03-01.
  3. ↑ "Patrick Thomas at The New York Times". Subtraction.com. Retrieved 2011-03-01.
  4. ↑ "Patrick Thomas". Patrick Thomas. 2011-01-01. Retrieved 2011-03-01.
  5. ↑ Kinsley, Michael (2006-11-05). "Election Day". The New York Times.
  6. ↑ Raban, Jonathan (2007-05-20). "The Nuclear Threat". The New York Times.
  7. ↑ Rosen, Jeffrey (2008-01-13). "Say What You Will". The New York Times.
  8. ↑ Junger, Sebastian (2010-04-01). "The Vietnam Wars: ‘Matterhorn’". The New York Times.
  9. ↑ Trussoni, Danielle (2010-04-01). "The Vietnam Wars: ‘The Lotus Eaters’". The New York Times.
  10. ↑ "Rebranding Africa". The New York Times. 2009-07-10.
  11. ↑ The New York Times http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/11/22/opinion/23oped_ready/popup.jpg. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  12. ↑ Agha, Hussein; Malley, Robert (2009-08-11). "The Two-State Solution Doesn't Solve Anything". The New York Times.

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