NEAR HORIZONS THOMAS PAQUETTE
April 25 - May 30, 2020
THOMAS PAQUETTE
A Minneapolis native now living in Pennsylvania, Thomas Paquette holds a BFA in painting from Bemidji State University and an MFA in painting from Southern Illinois University. During his 40 year career, his paintings have been exhibited in over sixty solo shows. He has been an artist in residence at the American Academy in Rome, Millay Colony, Aegean Arts and Cultural Exchange, three national parks, and a three-year residency-fellowship from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts in Miami. His paintings have been selected and displayed at nineteen U.S. embassies on ďŹ ve continents. A solo exhibition of his paintings, America’s River Re-Explored, traveled to three museums along the Mississippi River in 2018-2019, and another, On Nature's Terms, was exhibited at museums in California, New York and Indiana in 2014 - 2015.
ARTIST STATEMENT My perennial subject is the natural world because it astonishes me daily. On my only tangent from studying art in college, I studied to be a naturalist. Nature continues to be both my subject and teacher. The imperceptible but massive grind of plate tectonics and the momentary whims of weather alike are mentors and guides as I build up and scrape off layers of color to get at something more vital and essential about my subject than a faithful rendering would accomplish. It doesn’t matter how much time this process takes. What I found so compelling in my subject, I retell to the viewer in paint, and it may take several years of creation, destruction, and re-creation to best tell that story on the same canvas. It is only important that the painting evolves into a living talisman of the place that inspired it.
-Thomas Paquette, Spring 2020
Thomas Paquette Etched Evening Sky 2020 | oil on linen $6,500.00 image: 24 x 34" | frame: 26 x 36"
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Thomas Paquette Low Tide, Sunset Beach 2020 | oil on linen $4,000.00 image: 12 x 22" | frame: 16 x 24"
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Thomas Paquette Lake Axis (Noerenberg Gardens) 2020 | oil on linen $4,800.00 image: 28 x 20" | frame: 30 x 22"
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Thomas Paquette Reckoning After the Flood 2017 | oil on linen $10,500.00 image: 40 x 48" | frame: 42 x 50"
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Thomas Paquette Approaching Storm 2011 | oil on linen $3,400.00 image: 16 x 14" | frame: 18 x 16"
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Thomas Paquette Meadow Trail to Height of Land 2020 | oil on linen $3,400.00 image: 14 x 16" | frame: 16 x 18"
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Thomas Paquette Meadow Trail Afternoon 2020 | oil on canvas mounted on birch plywood $1,400.00 image: 7 x 9 | frame: 13 x 15"
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Thomas Paquette Clouds So Inclined 2020 | oil on linen $5,500.00 image: 30 x 24" | frame: 32 x 26"
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Thomas Paquette Rebirth of a Thunderhead 2020 | oil on canvas $3,000.00 image: 11 x 18" | frame: 12 x 20"
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Thomas Paquette Color of Time Study 2019 | oil on linen $900.00 image: 3 x 6" | frame: 12 x 15"
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Thomas Paquette Water Tower 2020 | oil on linen $5,800.00 image: 24 x 30" | frame: 26 x 32�
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Thomas Paquette Hidden Power 2017 | oil on linen $5,500.00 image: 24 x 30" | frame: 26 x 32"
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Thomas Paquette Waning Light on Clinton Bridge 2017 | oil on linen $6,500.00 image: 28 x 36" | frame: 30 x 38"
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Thomas Paquette Border Aerie (BWCA) 2020 | oil on linen $13,500.00 image: 40 x 60" | frame: 42 x 62"
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Thomas Paquette Etched Evening Sky Study 2020 | oil on linen $600.00 image: 5 x 7" | frame: 11 x 13"
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