Thomas Rush
  • Paintings
    • Some Recent Paintings
    • Still Life Series 2019
    • Somewhat Recent Paintings
    • Harmony in Chaos Period
    • SF/Bolinas 2003–2006
    • France 2000–2002
    • Guadalajara Period 1991–1996
    • Some Early Paintings
    • Paintings: In Collections
  • Photography
  • On Making Art
  • About the Artist
  • Contact
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Art Criticism
© Thomas Rush 
2020
All rights reserved.
 
Explain, explain
Comment, comment
Criticize, eulogize
Compliment, foment
Extrapolate, equate
Step forward, step back
Lean in, lean out
Bring to conclusion
And miss the whole point.

We artists are driven towards personal lives nourished in these strange techniques of self-pursuit.
—Lawrence Durrell (from Clea)

​Ongoing Exhibition: ​17 February – 26 March 2020
Stay and Wonder Gallery, Columbia Plaza, 250 East Fifth Street, Cincinnati OH 45202
[Held over until some time in 2021 because of the pandemic.]

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​EDUCATION:
San Francisco State University, San Francisco CA: 
            B.A., Stage Design, 1990, Summa Cum Laude
San Francisco Art Institute,
San Francisco CA: 
            Painting and Drawing Studies, 1979-1980
Universidad de Guadalajara,
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico: 
            Spanish Language and Mexican Cultural Studies, 1991–1994
 

COLLECTIONS:
USA
San Francisco CA         Los Angeles CA          Alameda CA                Richmond CA
Petaluma CA                 Aliso Viejo, CA            Vallejo CA                   Cincinnati OH
Yellow Springs OH      Villa Hills KY               Ft. Thomas KY            LaPorte CO
Alexandria VA              St. John USVI               St. Croix USVI              Seattle WA
Livermore CO               Orlando FL                                               

EUROPE  
Paris, France                Seillans, France                        Fayence, France           Callian, France
Madrid, Spain              Geneva, Switzerland               London, UK                    Oxshott, UK
Amsterdam, Holland           
 
LATIN AMERICA
Guadalajara, Mexico    Ribeirao Preto, Brazil           Melaque, Jalisco, Mexico                    
 

PAINTING EXHIBITIONS:
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2020     Stay and Wonder Gallery, Cincinnati OH
2014     Double Vision, Oxford Community Art Center, Oxford OH
2008    OMS Mural, OMS Photography Studios, Cincinnati OH
2007    Harmony in Chaos, York Street Cafe Third Floor Gallery, Newport KY
2006    The Mountain Series, Studio 700, Pendleton Art Center, Cincinnati OH
2005    One Year's Work, Live Worms Gallery, North Beach, San Francisco CA
2004    New Paintings, Intrax International Institute, San Francisco CA
2002    La Chirane, Seillans (Var) France
2001    The Design Consortium, Cincinnati OH
2001    Chapelle des Pénitents, Callian (Var) France
2000    Special Showing, Poterie L'Évêché, Fayence (Var) France
2000    Heat Wave, Malton Gallery, Cincinnati OH
1999    Abstractions of the Figure, Base Art Gallery, Cincinnati OH
1998    Works from Mexico, San Francisco, and Cincinnati, Toedtman School of Music, Cincinnati OH
1996    New Paintings, The Gallery at Wellage and Buxton, Cincinnati OH
1996    A Retrospective, Toedtman School of Music, Cincinnati OH
1995    Obras Recientes, Proulex Vallarta, Guadalajara, Mexico

GROUP EXIBITIONS:
2019    The Abstract Show, Cincinnati Art Club
2011    Footprints, Fitton Center for the Arts, Hamilton OH
2009    44thJuried Art Exhibit, Fitton Center for the Arts, Hamilton OH
2007    SOS Art, Cincinnati Art Academy, Cincinnati OH
2005    Third Pan Opticon of North Beach, Live Worms Gallery, San Francisco CA
2004    Second Pan Opticon of North Beach, Live Worms Gallery, San Francisco CA
2002    Galerie Adrian David, Knokke-Zoute, Belgium
2001    An Art Affaire, Heritage Club, Cincinnati OH
2000    Zenith Gallery, Washington DC
1999    Malton Gallery, Cincinnati OH
1995    Club de Industriales de Jalisco, Guadalajara, Mexico
1994    Tres Diversos Artistas, Proulex Vallarta, Guadalajara, Mexico
 
PHOTOGRAPHY EXIBITIONS: 
2012    RayKo Photo Center, San Francisco CA
2012    The F-Stops HERE!, Live Worms Gallery, San Francisco CA
 

PUBLICATIONS:
Cincinnati City Beat, Cincinnati OH, "Mood and Emotion" (Review of exhibition: Design Consortium) May 2002
Nice Matin, Nice, France (Review of exhibition: La Chirane) April 2002
Le Nouveau Bavard, Tourrettes (Var), France, "Mystère et Éclat" (Review: Chapelle des Pénitents expo) Aug 2001
Nice/Var Matin, Nice, France (Review of exhibition: Chapelle des Pénitents) 11 July 2001
Cincinnati City Beat, Cincinnati OH (Review of exhibition: Abstractions of the Figure) May 1999
Antenna Arts Magazine, Cincinnati OH, (Artist Profile), February 1996
 
© 1976-2021 Thomas Rush. All rights reserved.
  • Paintings
    • Some Recent Paintings
    • Still Life Series 2019
    • Somewhat Recent Paintings
    • Harmony in Chaos Period
    • SF/Bolinas 2003–2006
    • France 2000–2002
    • Guadalajara Period 1991–1996
    • Some Early Paintings
    • Paintings: In Collections
  • Photography
  • On Making Art
  • About the Artist
  • Contact