EDUCATION
1984 - Otis Art Institute of the Parsons School of Design, B.F.A., Painting
1980 - Barstow Community College
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 - Terry Martin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2010 - Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York City, NY
2009 - Frederic Stern Gallery, Pasadena, CA
2007 - Cal State University at Channel Islands, SCIART. Camarillo, CA
2006 - Sullivan Goss Gallery, Montecito, CA
2006 - Plaza Gallery, Oxnard, CA
2005 - Art Center DA, Kyung Buk, Korea
2004 - SCAPE, Corona Del Mar, CA
2003 - Terrence Rogers Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
1998 - Mendenhall Gallery, Pasadena, CA
1995 - Jamison/Thomas Gallery. Portland, OR
1995 - Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1994 - Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1993 - Jamison/Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
1992 - Lucy Berman Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1992 - Jamison/Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
1990 - Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1990 - Lucy Berman Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1988 - Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012-"100 Grand" Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2012 - "Cityscape II", George Billis Gallery, Culver City, CA
2011 - "100 Grand" Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2011 - "10th California Landscape Painters", John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
2011 - "Sea Level", SCAPE, Corona Del Mar, CA
2010 - "100 Grand" Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2009 - "Summer Group Show, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York City, NY
2009-"100 Grand" Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2008 - Group Show. Frederic Stern Gallery, Pasadena, CA
2008 - "Then and Now", Frederic Stern Gallery, Pasadena, CA
2007 - "The Urban Myth", Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA
2007 - "If the Oceans Don't Make It, How Will We?", Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York City, NY
2006 - "Up to the Surface" Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA
2006 - "Security", Terrence Rogers Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
2005 - "Gallery Artists Part II", Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York City, NY
2005 - "Trees and Trains", Terrence Rogers Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
2004 - "Romancing Nature", Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York City, NY
2004 - "10th Annual Group Invitational", Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004 - "The Waters Re-Glitterized" SCAPE, Corona Del Mar, CA
2003 - "8th Annual Small Images Show", Sullivan/Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2001 - "Black and White, and One Blue Too", CS Fine Art, Montrose, CA
2001 - "Selected Artists", Terrence Rogers , Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
2001 - "Treasures", Terrence Rogers Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA,
1999 - "Art Auction 8", Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1997 - "Traditions Abandoned, Retained", Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
1996 - "City of Vapor", Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1995 - "Fifteen Years", Jamison/Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
1994 - "External Views, Internal Perceptions", Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA
1994 - "Public Encounters", Bush Art Center, Salem, OR
1993 - "The Art of Microsoft", Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1993 - "Daylights Fantasy..The Nights Dark Side", Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
1993 - "Cityscapes", Hope Street Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991 - "The Landscape, A 20th Century Vision, Eastern Washington University, Spokane, WA
1991 - "Urban Landscape I", Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park
1991 - "Issue Earth" Loma Linda University Gallery, Riverside, CA
1991 - "The Edge of Night", Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA
1991 - "Spacious Skies", Rutgers Barclay Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1991 - "East West Perspectives", Los Angeles Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
1989 - "Small Works " Jamison/Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
1988 - "If the Shoe Fits". LA Artcore Center, Los Angeles, CA
1987 - "Emerging California Artists", Los Angeles Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
1986 - "86th Annual Invitational", San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
1986 - Desert West Annual, Antelope Valley College, Lancaster, CA
1986 - Long Beach Art Association, Long Beach, CA
1983 - James David Thomas and Dan O'Connell, Otis /Parsons North Gallery. Los Angeles, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2012 - "The Western Landscape", Southwest Art Magazine, February 2012
2012 - "Cityscape II. Images of Land and City" New American Paintings, August 2012
2011 - 10th California Landscape Painters,. John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA August 2011
2010 - James David Thomas, Exhibition Catalog, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York City, NY
2010 - Artnews Full Color Ad, September 2010
2007 -"The Urban Myth", Review, Santa BarbaraNew Press" Santa Barbara, CA
2007 - "Haiku Works" Exhibition Catalog, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York City, NY
2005 - "Gallery Artists Part II", Exhibition Catalog, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY
2005 - "Romancing Nature", Art News Art Review, March 2005
2004 - Art News Full Color Ad, December, 2004
2004 - "Romancing Nature", Exhibition Catalog, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York City, NY
2004 - "MediaSpace - Place, Scale and Culture in a Media Age", Routledge Publications, UK
2003 - "Something Spatial in the Air", Routledge Publications, London, UK
2003 - "Big Ideas, Small Packages", Art Review, Santa Barbara News-Press, Santa Barbara, CA
1999 - Hemispheres In-Flight Magazine, Cover and Profile. United Airlines, October 1999
1998 - "City of Vapor" American Artist Magazine, July 1998
1996 - "Trends in Representational Painting", Southwest Art Magazine, February 1996
1992 - "Contemporary Landscape Painting", Artweek, September 1992
1991 - "Issue Earth", Exhibition Catalog, Loma Linda University, Riverside, CA
1991 - Journal North Art Review, Santa Fe, NM April 1991
1990 - Los Angeles Times Art Review, July 24, 1990
1989 - Los Angeles Times Art Review, July 21, 1989
1989 - Los Angeles Times Art Review, March 21, 1988
1987 - Exhibition Catalog, "Emerging California Artists", LA Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
1986 - San Diego Union Art Review, October 20, 1986
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Samantha Barnes, Greenwich, CT
Greg & Theresa Cook, Glendale, CA
John Van de Kamp, Pasadena, CA
Xillary Twil , Los Angeles, CA
Robert Wagner, Los Angeles, CA
Roger and Pamela Birnbaum, Beverly Hills, CA
Michael Chapman, Fullerton, CA
Catherine Giesecke, MT
Susan Appel, Los Angeles, CA
Brad & Clarissa Weirick, Flintridge, CA
Victoria Jackson, Santa Barbara, CA
Kevin Coop, Lake Sherwood, CA
Paul Jenkin, Los Angeles, CA
John and Kathy Carl, Geneva, Switzerland
Lindley Karstens & Amber Katherine, Mar Vista, CA
Tracy Marsh and Lisa Larkin, Los Angeles, CA
Peter & Donna Shire, Los Angeles, CA
Stuart and Ursula Wolff, Wesrlake Village, CA
Josh Leo, Nashville, TN
Bryan Cook, Santa Monica, CA
John Nichols, Taos, NM
Liegh Chapman, Pasadena, CA
Mr. & Mrs. Monte Rifkin, Palm Desert, CA
Trink & Ernie Schurian, Vancouver, WA
Shelley Hochberg, New York City, NY
Robert Wagner, Los Angeles, CA
Aldis Browne, La Jolla, CA
Victor Cosentino, Northridge, CA
Claudio Stickar and Sun Choe, Glendale, CA
Saks Fifth Avenue, Portland, OR
MIcrosoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Oracle Corporation, Redwood City, CA
Namura Securities, Los Angeles, CA
Homestore.com, Westlake Village, CA
Nabisco Corporation, Atlanta, GA
Southern California Gas Company, Los Angeles, CA
James David Thomas
EDUCATION
1984 - Otis Art Institute of the Parsons School of Design, B.F.A., Painting
1980 - Barstow Community College
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 - Terry Martin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2010 - Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York City, NY
2009 - Frederic Stern Gallery, Pasadena, CA
2007 - Cal State University at Channel Islands, SCIART. Camarillo, CA
2006 - Sullivan Goss Gallery, Montecito, CA
2006 - Plaza Gallery, Oxnard, CA
2005 - Art Center DA, Kyung Buk, Korea
2004 - SCAPE, Corona Del Mar, CA
2003 - Terrence Rogers Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
1998 - Mendenhall Gallery, Pasadena, CA
1995 - Jamison/Thomas Gallery. Portland, OR
1995 - Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1994 - Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1993 - Jamison/Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
1992 - Lucy Berman Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1992 - Jamison/Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
1990 - Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1990 - Lucy Berman Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1988 - Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012-"100 Grand" Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2012 - "Cityscape II", George Billis Gallery, Culver City, CA
2011 - "100 Grand" Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2011 - "10th California Landscape Painters", John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
2011 - "Sea Level", SCAPE, Corona Del Mar, CA
2010 - "100 Grand" Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2009 - "Summer Group Show, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York City, NY
2009-"100 Grand" Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2008 - Group Show. Frederic Stern Gallery, Pasadena, CA
2008 - "Then and Now", Frederic Stern Gallery, Pasadena, CA
2007 - "The Urban Myth", Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA
2007 - "If the Oceans Don't Make It, How Will We?", Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York City, NY
2006 - "Up to the Surface" Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA
2006 - "Security", Terrence Rogers Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
2005 - "Gallery Artists Part II", Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York City, NY
2005 - "Trees and Trains", Terrence Rogers Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
2004 - "Romancing Nature", Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York City, NY
2004 - "10th Annual Group Invitational", Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004 - "The Waters Re-Glitterized" SCAPE, Corona Del Mar, CA
2003 - "8th Annual Small Images Show", Sullivan/Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2001 - "Black and White, and One Blue Too", CS Fine Art, Montrose, CA
2001 - "Selected Artists", Terrence Rogers , Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
2001 - "Treasures", Terrence Rogers Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA,
1999 - "Art Auction 8", Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1997 - "Traditions Abandoned, Retained", Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
1996 - "City of Vapor", Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1995 - "Fifteen Years", Jamison/Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
1994 - "External Views, Internal Perceptions", Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA
1994 - "Public Encounters", Bush Art Center, Salem, OR
1993 - "The Art of Microsoft", Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1993 - "Daylights Fantasy..The Nights Dark Side", Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
1993 - "Cityscapes", Hope Street Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991 - "The Landscape, A 20th Century Vision, Eastern Washington University, Spokane, WA
1991 - "Urban Landscape I", Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park
1991 - "Issue Earth" Loma Linda University Gallery, Riverside, CA
1991 - "The Edge of Night", Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA
1991 - "Spacious Skies", Rutgers Barclay Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1991 - "East West Perspectives", Los Angeles Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
1989 - "Small Works " Jamison/Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
1988 - "If the Shoe Fits". LA Artcore Center, Los Angeles, CA
1987 - "Emerging California Artists", Los Angeles Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
1986 - "86th Annual Invitational", San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
1986 - Desert West Annual, Antelope Valley College, Lancaster, CA
1986 - Long Beach Art Association, Long Beach, CA
1983 - James David Thomas and Dan O'Connell, Otis /Parsons North Gallery. Los Angeles, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2012 - "The Western Landscape", Southwest Art Magazine, February 2012
2012 - "Cityscape II. Images of Land and City" New American Paintings, August 2012
2011 - 10th California Landscape Painters,. John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA August 2011
2010 - James David Thomas, Exhibition Catalog, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York City, NY
2010 - Artnews Full Color Ad, September 2010
2007 -"The Urban Myth", Review, Santa BarbaraNew Press" Santa Barbara, CA
2007 - "Haiku Works" Exhibition Catalog, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York City, NY
2005 - "Gallery Artists Part II", Exhibition Catalog, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY
2005 - "Romancing Nature", Art News Art Review, March 2005
2004 - Art News Full Color Ad, December, 2004
2004 - "Romancing Nature", Exhibition Catalog, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York City, NY
2004 - "MediaSpace - Place, Scale and Culture in a Media Age", Routledge Publications, UK
2003 - "Something Spatial in the Air", Routledge Publications, London, UK
2003 - "Big Ideas, Small Packages", Art Review, Santa Barbara News-Press, Santa Barbara, CA
1999 - Hemispheres In-Flight Magazine, Cover and Profile. United Airlines, October 1999
1998 - "City of Vapor" American Artist Magazine, July 1998
1996 - "Trends in Representational Painting", Southwest Art Magazine, February 1996
1992 - "Contemporary Landscape Painting", Artweek, September 1992
1991 - "Issue Earth", Exhibition Catalog, Loma Linda University, Riverside, CA
1991 - Journal North Art Review, Santa Fe, NM April 1991
1990 - Los Angeles Times Art Review, July 24, 1990
1989 - Los Angeles Times Art Review, July 21, 1989
1989 - Los Angeles Times Art Review, March 21, 1988
1987 - Exhibition Catalog, "Emerging California Artists", LA Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
1986 - San Diego Union Art Review, October 20, 1986
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Samantha Barnes, Greenwich, CT
Greg & Theresa Cook, Glendale, CA
John Van de Kamp, Pasadena, CA
Xillary Twil , Los Angeles, CA
Robert Wagner, Los Angeles, CA
Roger and Pamela Birnbaum, Beverly Hills, CA
Michael Chapman, Fullerton, CA
Catherine Giesecke, MT
Susan Appel, Los Angeles, CA
Brad & Clarissa Weirick, Flintridge, CA
Victoria Jackson, Santa Barbara, CA
Kevin Coop, Lake Sherwood, CA
Paul Jenkin, Los Angeles, CA
John and Kathy Carl, Geneva, Switzerland
Lindley Karstens & Amber Katherine, Mar Vista, CA
Tracy Marsh and Lisa Larkin, Los Angeles, CA
Peter & Donna Shire, Los Angeles, CA
Stuart and Ursula Wolff, Wesrlake Village, CA
Josh Leo, Nashville, TN
Bryan Cook, Santa Monica, CA
John Nichols, Taos, NM
Liegh Chapman, Pasadena, CA
Mr. & Mrs. Monte Rifkin, Palm Desert, CA
Trink & Ernie Schurian, Vancouver, WA
Shelley Hochberg, New York City, NY
Robert Wagner, Los Angeles, CA
Aldis Browne, La Jolla, CA
Victor Cosentino, Northridge, CA
Claudio Stickar and Sun Choe, Glendale, CA
Saks Fifth Avenue, Portland, OR
MIcrosoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Oracle Corporation, Redwood City, CA
Namura Securities, Los Angeles, CA
Homestore.com, Westlake Village, CA
Nabisco Corporation, Atlanta, GA
Southern California Gas Company, Los Angeles, CA
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