Thomas Sleet
American, Born
Lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri.
Starting with commonly available materials, Thomas Sleet's work orbits the unpredictable effects of natural phenomena on synthetic objects and hybrid material. A combination of painting, sculpture, texture, and color it is enigmatic; it weaves themes of organic structure, migration, infinite multiples, and culture with systems of individual marks. Through the application of cement materials to varying substrates in repetitious patterns, where no two marks are identical, a dynamic tension is achieved in that there is the geometry of repetition and the contrast of organic coexisting.
Even deeper is the inspiration to transform time and space via spontaneous textural constructions that invoke the experience of unlimited containment, i.e. universal vessel or exponential release. These elemental constructions reference the "big bang" and black hole theories. With cement, plant fiber, wood chips, and oxides, Sleet seeks to energize the ether - ignite the unknown.
The culmination of this work is the purification of form - the merging of organic structure with geometry to engage a new vernacular of form. Tortured distressed surfaces, a unique merging of form and texture, positive and negative, color and space, unite as one.
Thomas Sleet attended Columbus College of Art and Design and Washington University in St. Louis Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, where he received his BFA.
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TERRA
Cement, acrylic and sawdust on acrylic Mat mounted on panel
83 x 61 inches
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TERRA (detail)
Cement, acrylic and sawdust on acrylic Mat mounted on panel
83 x 61 inches
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TRACE ID (detail)
Cement, acrylic and sawdust on acrylic Mat mounted on panel
57 x 78 inches
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TRACE ID
Cement, acrylic and sawdust on acrylic Mat mounted on panel
57 x 78 inches
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QUNI
Cement, acrylic and sawdust on acrylic Mat mounted on panel
57 x 42 inches
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QUNI (detail)
Cement, acrylic and sawdust on acrylic Mat mounted on panel
57 x 42 inches
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BAKA TRACE
Cement, acrylic and sawdust on acrylic Mat mounted on panel
45 x 79 inches
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TWA
Cement, acrylic and sawdust on acrylic Mat mounted on panel
73 x 109 inches
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TWA (detail)
Cement, acrylic and sawdust on acrylic Mat mounted on panel
73 x 109 inches
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BONE RIVER
Cement, acrylic and sawdust on acrylic Mat mounted on panel
58 x 55 inches
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ELEMENT
Cement, acrylic and sawdust on acrylic Mat mounted on panel
42 x 42 inches
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ELEMENT (detail)
Cement, acrylic and sawdust on acrylic Mat mounted on panel
42 x 42 inches
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TRACE NUMBER
Cement, acrylic and sawdust on acrylic Mat mounted on panel
78 x 112 inches
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Equilibrium
Cement, sawdust and acrylic mounted on panel
48 x 48"
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Praxis
Cement, sawdust and acrylic mounted on panel
42 x 30"
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Untitled II
Cement, sawdust and acrylic mounted on panel
24 x 8"
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AQUA
Cement, acrylic and sawdust on acrylic Mat mounted on panel
41 x 55 inches
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