Rainfall in Grey: Remnants of Cindy Painting

Thom Kostura was born and raised on Long Island, NY and attended the Huntington School of Fine Art as a Grand Scholarship winner. He received his BFA in Painting and Sculpture from SUNY Buffalo in 2005, after which he returned to Long Island where he became a specialist in faux bois, marbling, and project management with an interior design firm. While working in the Hamptons, Kostura began several side ventures including working with decorators on commissioned fine art, selling paintings of local landscapes in stores around the Hamptons, and starting a small line of fashion accessories sold online and in consignment shops in the Hamptons, New York, and San Francisco. In 2012, Kostura relocated with his husband to Memphis, TN, where he began and completed his MFA from Memphis College of Art. At the same time, Kostura and his husband joined three other couples in a federal lawsuit, “Tanco v Haslam" that challenged Tennessee’s recognition of out of state same-sex marriages. The case was consolidated and decided favorably at the Supreme Court of the United States under “Obergefell, et al. v. Hodges, et al.” During this time, Kostura and his husband worked closely with multiple state and local LGBT groups on fundraisers and media campaigns focused in community outreach efforts. In 2016, Kostura and his husband moved to Philadelphia where he took continued graduate courses in exhibition planning and design. In 2017 he joined the staff at the Center for Emerging Visual Artists.