Samantha Thomas

Ever-exploratory and idiosyncratic, Samantha Thomas’s work begins with color, shape, texture, line, space, and light, the primary building blocks of painting. Using common studio materials such as raw canvas, thread, and acrylic paint, she embraces their fundamental and distinct qualities to expose their limits and possibilities for expression. Jagged extrusions, folded thresholds and frenetically woven strands of thread transform her canvases into paintings that are, at once, physical, architectural and sculptural. Experiments in the potential of color; ruched reflections on the subtleties of shifting light and shadow; and defiantly contesting the inherent flatness and regularity of canvas from which they are constructed; Thomas’s work speaks to the language and legacy of abstract painting and drawing.