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Devin Thor Artist

Biographic sketch

I learned art from my father, who was a Disney animator, then a commercial artist, and a fine arts painter. When I started college, I choose to become a geologist and spent years as a scientist conducting ocean-basin research and later worked as an environmental consultant. I returned to art later in life with a strong desire to channel my emotional energy and love for the natural world into abstract form.

I am a member of the Los Angeles Art Association. I have attended metal-sculpting and iron-pour workshops conducted by renown sculptor D'Jean Jawrunner in Tucumcari, New Mexico. In 2022, I attended the RUC Artist Residency in Cividate Camuno, Italy.

Artist Statement

In The Beginning........There Was Art. Our prehistoric ancestors used cave walls as their canvas to paint Paleolithic creatures. Their art, like ours today, was an expression of emotions. My paintings and sculptures are abstractions of elements in our natural, real world. My art should not need explanation or analyses; it should stand by itself to stir the viewer's emotions. Remembering that we must take care of our planet.....Extinction is forever.

list of shows

Permanent Installation

2020 "Antelope Herd (Buck I, Doe IV, Fawn I)" - Museum of Art and History, Prime Desert Woodlands Preserve, Lancaster, CA, Curated by Andi Campognone (Director, MOAH).

Solo Shows

2016 "Oasis" Millard Sheets Art Center, Pomona, CA, Curated by Thomas Canavan (Director, Millard Sheets Art Center).

2016 "Extinction is Forever" - Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA, Juried by LAAA Board of Directors (Los Angeles Art Association).

Group Shows

2023 "Apophenia" - Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Curated by Nancey Meyer (LAND & LACMA curator) and Hugo Cervantes (writer & archivist).

2023 "Shape+Form" - Strut Haaga Gallery, Descanso Gardens, Juried by Meher McArthur (art historian) and Mollie White (Mollie White Gallery).

2023 "Specimen" - Gallery 825, Los Angeles, California, Juried by Kassandra Voyagis (producer & director Los Angeles & Palm Beach Art Show).

2023 "Chestnut" - Gallery 825, Los Angeles, California, Juried by Danielle Avram (Director, UDT SP/N Gallery).

2023 "Full Bodied" - Gallery 825, Los Angeles, California, Juried by Los Angeles Art Association Committee.

2022 "Applied Science" - Gallery 825, Los Angeles, California, Juried by Los Angeles Art Association Committee.

2022 "Habitual" - Gallery 825, Los Angeles, California, Juried by Los Angeles Art Association Committee.

2022 "Inferiority" - Gallery 825, Los Angeles, California, Juried by Los Angeles Art Association Committee.

2022 "Danzare" - presso la Chiesa di Sant'Antonio, CAMUS - Museo Camuno, Breno, Italy, RUC Artist In Residence.

2022 "Undisclosed Location" - Gallery 825, Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles Art Association Committee.

2022 "Make Plain" - Gallery 825, Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles Art Association Committee.

2021 "Vagaries" - Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles Art Association Exhibition Committee.

2021 "Geographics" - Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA, Juried by Chris Davies (publisher Fabrik Magazine).

2021 "Ready Go!" - Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles Art Association Exhibition Committee.

2020 "Open Show" - Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA, Juried by Shana Nys Dambrot (art critic).

2020 "Festoon" - Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles Art Association Exhibition Committee.

2020 "Field of Vision" - Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles Art Association Exhibition Committee.

2019 "Peace on Earth" - Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA, Curated by Andi Campognone (Director, MOAH).

2017 "Personal Vacation" - Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA, Juried by Chris Davies (publisher Fabrik Magazine).

2017 "Out There" - Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA, Juried by Francisco George and William Escalera.

2017 "Beverly Hills Art Show", Beverly Hills, CA, by invitation from Peter Mays (Director, Los Angeles Art Association).

2016 "Countenance Divine" - Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA, Juried by Rick Royale (Royale Projects Contemporary Art).

2015 "Salon Art Show" - Altadena Foundation, Altadena, CA, Juried by Edward Becket (artist) and Trevor Bryant (artist).

2015 "Back to the Roots" - SW Museum, Pasadena, CA, Juried by Jeanie Frias (Arroyo Arts Collective).

2014 "Aurora" - Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA, Juried by LAAA Board of Directors (Los Angeles Art Association).

2014 "Charmed and Strange" - The Brewery I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Commentary by Andi Campognone (Director Lancaster Museum of Art and History).

2014 "Cultural Excavation Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA; Juried by Elizabeth James (Cherry and Martin Gallery).

2013 “Pop Uber Alles” - Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA; Juried by Dr. Timothy Potts (J. Paul Getty Museum).

Devin Thor Artist

Devin Thor Artist

Biographic sketch

Artist Statement

list of shows

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