Lew Thomas 1932 in San Francisco, CA-2021 in Petaluma, CA

At 2023 Art Basel Miami Beach Gallery Sector, Philip Martin Gallery presents paintings and photographs by Kwame Brathwaite, Holly Coulis, Tomory Dodge, Sky Glabush, Sophie...

Time Management Techniques showcases photography by artists who examined the medium’s relationship to time between 1968 and 2019. Drawn from the Whitney’s permanent collection, the...

June 30 — August 26, 2022 Opening Reception: June 30 from 6 —9 pm Julie Becker, Anne Collier, Moyra Davey, Lloyd Foster, Luigi Ghirri, Joseph...

October 2, 2021 - January 23, 2022 Addison Gallery of American Art Phillips Academy 180 Main Street, Andover, MA 01810 Press Release: ' In 1971,...

Lew Thomas was running the bookstore at San Francisco’s Legion of Honor when he decided to become one of the photographers featured in the modern...

Pathbreaking Conceptual photographer Lew Thomas died in August in Petaluma, California, at the age of eighty-eight. The news was announced by the Los Angeles–based Philip...

Lew Thomas, an artist whose photographic experiments created new possibilities for Conceptual art, has died at 88. Philip Martin Gallery in Los Angeles, his longtime...

Lew Thomas, a pioneering figure in the history of photography and conceptual art, passed away this August in Petaluma, CA. A loving father and grandfather,...

Congratulations to Lew Thomas for the recent acquisition of his work by Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy (Andover, MA). Thomas's works, 'SINK: Filling/Filled/Draining/Drained,'...

'Thought Pieces: 1970s Photographs by Lew Thomas, Donna-Lee Phillips, and Hal Fischer,” edited by Erin O’Toole. 'Thomas pursued a photographic practice grounded in ideas gleaned...

Menil Collection acquires works by Lew Thomas. Works acquired include “BIBLIOGRAPHY 3” (1977), “Bookspine (Malevich)” (1979-80) and “Bathers” (1987). The works came from the collection...

Just getting through the day, another like the ones before. Not only is space constricted as we stay home with so many public places still...

There’s something deeply satisfying about exhibitions that focus on a specific time and place. To me, visiting these shows is a bit like time travel....

Three Bay Area artists who banded together in the 1970s to explore conceptual photography are the subjects of a fascinating exhibition that just opened at...

Hal Fischer’s photography series, Gay Semiotics, deconstructed the ways his queer contemporaries in 1970s San Francisco presented themselves. Here, Fischer tells Another Man the story...

San Francisco’s gay world in the late 1970s was a cultural event unlike any previously seen in the city, from its political activity to an...

Congratulations to Lew Thomas for the acquisition of his work by the Museum of Modern Art! Works contained in the collection include GRASS (1973), Bibliography...

January 4–August 9, 2020 'In the early 1970s, Lew Thomas set out to disrupt photography in San Francisco. Tired of the mystical thinking and emotionalism...

Congratulations to Lew Thomas for the acquisition of his work by the San Francisco Museum of Art! Works contained in the collection include 34th Avenue...