Lucas Thomas

Lucas Thomas (b. 1982) grew up along the Colorado front range and received his BFA in painting from Metropolitan State University of Denver. He later returned to Metro State to get his teaching credentials and for the past eight years has been teaching high school art to gifted students. His studio practice encompasses a variety of materials and approaches that include wood working, assemblage, ceramic, pottery and painting. For the past 20 years, he has been an active member of the Denver art community having exhibited his multimedia installations and paintings in group shows and solo exhibitions in a variety of Colorado art spaces and venues. His work and teaching practice have received numerous accolades and in 2022 he was awarded the Golden Educator’s residency at the Golden Artist Color headquarters in New Berlin, New York. 

Thomas’s work is an exploration and development of an ever growing but often recurring visual vocabulary of found, sculpted, and rendered forms inspired by geometry, constructivism, the built environment, mysticism and nature.  Further, the work attempts to make use of and contain references to noted memories and feelings marked and colored by specific life experiences and circumstances. His work is an ongoing experiment with an aim to arrive at a formal harmony that scaffolds an active but contemplative or transcendent experience.