James David Thomas
Birthplace
1957 Olympia, WA
Education
1984 Otis Art Institute of the Parsons School of Design, B.F.A., Painting
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Cross Section, Various New Works, 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
2015-23 "100 Grand", Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2019 "James David Thomas" Gallery Artists, Forest and Ocean Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2014 "100 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 "100 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
2011 "100 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
2007 "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 I", Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park
1991 "Issue 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
2019 "Profile - Art Highlites Magazine", Laguna Beach November 2019
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 "MediaSpacePlace, 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
Cliffside Transportation Services, Corporate HQ., Big Timber, MT
Andrew & Lolo Clayton, Shanghai, China
Gabriel Ghio & John Guerry, Hidden Hills, CA
Samantha Barnes, Greenwich, CT
Richard Rickertsen, Santa Monica, CA
Greg & Theresa Cook, Glendale, CA
John Van de Kamp, Pasadena, CA
Sheila Baird, Santa Monica, CA
Xillary Twil, Los Angeles, CA
Robert Wagner, Los Angeles, CA
Roger and Pamela Birnbaum, Beverly Hills, CA
Michael Chapman, Fullerton, 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
Ludo Leiderritz, Laguna Beach, CA
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, Glendale, CA
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
EDUCATION
1984 - Otis Art Institute of the Parsons School of Design, B.F.A., Painting.
1980 - Barstow Community College
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 - Skidmore Contemporary, Santa Monica, CA
2018 - Skidmore Contemporary, Santa Monica, CA
2016 - Skidmore Contemporary, 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
2022- "100 Grand" Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2021- "100 Grand" Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2020 - March Group Exhibition, Skidmore Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, CA
2019 - "100 Grand" Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2019 - "Summer Group Show" Forest and Ocean Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2018 -"100 Grand" Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2017 - "100 Grand" Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2016 - "Channel Islands Symposium", Santa Barabara Arboretum, Santa Barbara, CA
2016 - "Cityscape VI" George Billis Gallery, Culver City, CA
2016 - "Group Exhibition", Skidmore Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, CA
2015 - "100 Grand" Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA.
2015 - Opening Group Exhibition, Skidmore Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, CA
2014 - "100 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 - "100 Grand" Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2012 - "100 Grand" Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2012 - "Cityscape II", George Billis Gallery, Culver City, CA
2011 - "100 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
2007 - "If the Oceans Don't Make It, How Will We?", Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York City, 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 I", Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park
1991 - "Issue 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, C
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 North Gallery. Los Angeles, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2019 - Art Highlights Magazine,Profile, Laguna Beach, CA
2017 - "New off of the Easel" Southwest Art Magazine, May 2017
2013 - "Tonalism then and Now", Santa Barbara Independent, October 2013
2012 - "The Western Landscape", Southwest Art Magazine, February 2012
2012 - "Cityscape II. Images of Land and City" New American Paintings, August 2012
2011 - 10th California Landscape Painters,. John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA August 2011
2010 - James David Thomas, Exhibition Catalog, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York City, NY
2010 - Artnews Full Color Ad, September 2010
2007 -"The Urban Myth", Review, Santa BarbaraNew 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, New York, 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, New York City, NY
2004 - "MediaSpace - Place, Scale and Culture in a Media Age", Routledge Publications, UK
2003 - "Something Spatial in the Air", Routledge Publications, London, UK
2003 - "Big Ideas, Small Packages", Art Review, Santa Barbara 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, CA
1986 - San Diego Union Art Review, October 20, 1986
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Cliffside Transportation Services, Corporate HQ., Big Timber, MT
Andrew and Lolo Clayton, Shanghai, China
Richard Rickertson, Santa Monica, CA
Susan Appel, Los Angeles, CA
Sheila Baird, Santa Monica, CA
Samantha Barnes, Greenwich, CT
Mario Alaniz, Thousand Oaks, CA
Greg & Theresa Cook, Glendale, CA
John Van de Kamp, Pasadena, CA
Xillary Twil , Los Angeles, CA
Robert Wagner, Los Angeles, CA
Roger and Pamela Birnbaum, Beverly Hills, CA
Michael Chapman, Fullerton, CA
Catherine Giesecke, Lost Creek Ranch, Greycliffe, MT
Mary Jensen, Scottsdale, AZ
Gabriel Ghio, Hidden Hills, CA
John and Cathy Lowell, Beverly Hills, CA
Brad & Clarissa Weirick, Flintridge, CA
Victoria Jackson, Santa Barbara, CA
Alisa Connolly, Scottsdale, AZ
Kevin Coop, Newport Beach, 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, Wesrlake Village, CA
Josh Leo, Nashville, TN
Bryan Cook, Santa Monica, CA
John Nichols, Taos, NM
Liegh Chapman, Pasadena, CA
Mr. & Mrs. Monte Rifkin, Palm Desert, CA
Trink & Ernie Schurian, Vancouver, WA
Shelley Hochberg, New York City, NY
Robert Wagner, Los Angeles, CA
Aldis Browne, La Jolla, CA
Victor Cosentino, Northridge, CA
Claudio Stickar and Sun Choe, Soeul, 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