Draft:Thomas Chapman (artist)

Thomas Chapman (1975, San Diego) is a painter who has experimented with an array of shapes and forms to support his multilayered imagery. Found fabrics, collage, stolen typographies, markers, paint, pencil markings, glue and many other elements comprise the surface of his paintings. For almost 20 years shaped canvases have occupied a prominent place in his creative output which also includes wall reliefs and interactive sculptures. Thomas Chapman received his BFA in Drawing and Painting from Louisiana State University in 1998. He lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Work

The unorthodox shapes of some of Chapman’s early canvases are inspired by a variety of themes ranging from astronomy, mythology, and other sources of ancient history. An unconventional approach towards painting supports and many layers of sometimes conflicting visual information are common features of Chapman’s diverse oeuvre.These attributes pay homage to artists like Frank Stella and Julian Schnabel who influenced the Berlin-based artist from an early age, yet Chapman redirects these formal similarities of impulse and locates a poetry that is new and fresh.

Selected Exhibition

Solo Exhibitions:
 * 2004 Thomas Chapman ,Galerie Christine Mayer, Munich, Germany
 * 2009 Igor and the Rattle Snake Solar Sound System in collaboration with Nik Nowak, Infernoesque, Berlin, Germany
 * 2010 The Fruit of the Warm Whole Chapel PSM Gallery, Berlin, Germany
 * 2013 Thomas Chapman-Glisten PSM Gallery, Berlin, Germany
 * 2014 Flow (Florian Christopher Gallery, Zurich, Germany
 * 2016 TLC – Touch Love Cooking, Kunstverein am Rosa–Luxemburg–Platz, Berlin, Germany
 * 2022 Thomas Chapman & Miroslav Tichý: Leisure Surveillance, San Sebastián, Spain

Group Exhibitions:


 * 2009 In the No (Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York City, USA
 * 2010 Luna/Proxy/Fire/Snow #1 (Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden, Germany
 * 2013 In the Studio, Kunsthalle Athena, Athens, Greece
 * 2014 IMAGINARY TRAVELS– OFF ON AN ADVENTURE!, Ahrensburg, Germany
 * 2014 Einknicken oder Kante zeigen. Die Kunst der Faltung (Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany
 * 2016 Unknown (curated by Julian Schnabel) (The Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany
 * 2016 Unknown, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany
 * 2019 Bonum et Malum, KLEINERVONWIESE, Berlin, Germany
 * 2022 Zeitvertreib (Kunstverein Arnesberg, Arnesberg, Germany