Tomas Vercher

Thomas has been a Fine Artist and Designer for over 45 years. He has worked as a Graphic Designer and Technical Illustrator for Nissan Motors. He has also worked in the Corporate Art Department of Computer Sciences Corporations as Art Director of Visual Presentation and Marketing. After discharge from the United States Air Force, where he worked as a Civil Engineering Draftsman, he lived in Europe for 4 years painting, traveling and studying Art. He is currently retired from the City of Los Angeles as a Graphic Artist for the Los Angeles Public Library.

This Fine Artist has always maintained his own Fine Art and Design studio along with employment. He has worked on a variety of projects in the community: the annual Cultural Affairs Department City of Los Angeles "African Marketplace,;' the Watts 3rd World Art Festival, poster design for the Mandela Reception Committee, proposal packaging and design for the Sheenway School and Cultural Center, poster design for Lula Washington Dance Foundation "The Legends Of Black Dance,' video storyboards for Malcolm Jamal Warner Productions and the poster and logo design for the hit musical " Bigger Than Bubble Gum ", featuring the Grammy Award Winning recording group “The Emotions” presented ...

El Camino College, Advertising Design (A.I.A.), 1968-1970
Bachelor of Fine Arts, UCLA 1975
UCLA Extension, Computer Graphics Designate, Certificate Program 1987, Certified 1990
Self-Help, Graphics - Mono printing and Silk-Screen printing 1991 & 1992
Self-Help, Graphics - Metal Etching 1994 - Block Printing. 2002

Thomas' work has been featured in the following Galleries and Exhibits:

Santa Monica Museum of Art
"Breaking Barriers -Group Exhibit
Santa Monica, CA 9-24-92 through 11-7-92

Gallery Plus
Group Exhibit - LA CA 1991 through 1992

Watts Third World Art Festival
Group Exhibit Watts, CA
10/11 & 12- 1990, '91 & 92-thru 2005

Promenade Gallery
Commission Exhibit Santa Monica, CA, 1993

Z Gallerie
Commission Exhibit
Santa Monica~ CA 1992 through present

Art-n-Barbee
Commission Exhibit
Los Angeles, CA 1992- 1994

Third World Art Gallery
"Ageless and Eternal Expression Of Life" Group Exhibit - LA, CA 1-13-91 through 10-18-91

Chalk On The Walk
Group Exhibit - Pasadena; CA. 6-12 &13-1993

Sotheby's
"Harlem Dowling- West Side
Center For Children and Family Services" • Group Exhibit -New York, NY 9-19-94

Mahogany Gallery
Commission Exhibit
Los Angeles, CA, 1-95 -96

Artist Salute To Black
History Month, Group Exhibit Los Angeles, CA • Pasadena, CA. 2-94 and 2-4 through 12-1995 -96

California Afro-American Museum of Art
"Emerging Artists" • Group Exhibit Los Angeles, CA 1990

African American Museum of Art
"African American Representation
of Masculinity" Exhibit Group Exhibit. La,CA 6- 1995- 7-...