About the Artist
Miles Thomas is an emerging interdisciplinary artist born in Washington, D.C., receiving primary arts education at Duke Ellington School of the Arts, 2012. His BFA, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, N.Y., 2017. he is under current consideration for continued study MLS/MA(history), Queen's College CUNY 2020-23-26. Focused on articulating commons of the solitary experience, the artist works in painting, sculpture, and text using interconnectivity as the mode by which he cultivates a sense of artistry, analysis and aestheticism.
Artist's Statement
My artistic purpose is situated somewhere between ephemera and artifact, where the pair of objectives become conflated into a gross-existentialism of social impact. I tend to align myself as a socio-practical artist, I live with a desire to inform others of deep social reflections, of societal undercurrents, and the artifacts of mental engagement. As all things anthropized, I live within terminal extents; my life evidence coterminous with fantasy, reality, objectivity, and emotion. I work to concretize mental ephemera, and hope to have that fugitive aspect of my human experience valued beyond commercial success. As for visual content, my mind is utilized as a conjunctive machine and culturing device, often producing tragicomic and incoherent compositions that are expositions of deep-self; A beingness shown through coded images, reflecting overflow, articulation, the gestalt and the acute. The analysis of my mental scenes enables me to create images and text that address multifaceted issues within philosophical inquiry; issues typically dealing with institutional malus [sic] often intermix with an analysis of ethics, leading to a moral address; I utilize these connections to combine relative topics with the e/affects of words, colors, and forms. And somewhere found in the management of these associations, my mind is exhibited as an artifact of memetic ephemera, in which massive amounts of information assume and address the entertainment of solitary-form; art evoking energies of the ethereal, becoming manifest by communication and human action, which with even a modicum of care and actualization, evoke deep expositions of pain and their remedies, decency in accord to empathy, and love in the face of disaster.
