Thomas Briggs

The realization of a gesture, in translation from mathematical representation to a particular stroke on paper is the base unit from which I construct my artworks. What is consistent from one stroke to the next is the line weight. What varies is the color, each stroke being its own single color, and its path which is uniquely its own. When strokes accumulate, a structure emerges, meaning the apparent structure arises from the ebb and flow of many individual strokes. When the count of strokes grows the work can take on a visual density associated with natural processes or living things, as well as the visual sensibility of impastoed paint.

I was born in 1956 in Minneapolis Minnesota, USA. Upon receiving a degree in painting I worked in museums and art schools for the next decade. My career took a turn when I discovered the then nascent field of computer animation in the early 1980s. Entirely self taught, I embarked on a new career that took me around the world, teaching and doing production. I spent extended periods living in Indonesia and Taiwan. Returning to the US in 1997, I settled in Los Angeles, doing effects work for features and broadcast. I eventually began to pick up on the artistic issues that had informed ...

Bachelor of Arts degree 1979, College of St. Thomas, St Paul MN

2006 Exhibitions:

Art From The Ends of the Digital Spectrum, Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman University
Art of Digital Show, Presented in the Lyceum Theater, San Diego CA
New Math at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art

2005 Exhibitions:

Pamplemousse Press, the master printing division of Pace Editions, New York, NY
Threading Time : 2005 Siggraph Fine Art Exhibition in Los Angeles
2005 Siggraph Travelling Art Exhibition, which travels worldwide through 2007

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Gallery13, Minneapolis MN, Old Planet New Planet: Print Making and the New World Order, October 2010
Gallery13, Minneapolis MN, Ultimate Landscape, December 2008
Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, “DigitalArt.LA”, August 2008
Gallery13, Minneapolis MN, July 2008
2005 Siggraph Travelling Art ExhibitionJune 6 - June 10, 2007
Hong Kong Cyberport The Arcade, Ocean View CourtJune 20 - June 28, 2007
City University of Hong KongJune 28 - July 7, 2007
Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education, Tsing YiJuly 7 - July 24 , 2007
Hong Kong Polytechnic University July 24 - July 29 , 2007
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre - HK Game Fair 2007