MICHAEL THOMAS

Michael Thomas has been fabricating large and small scale welded steel sculpture since the early eighties. He’s exhibited and sold works throughout the Northeastern United States and Canada including Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York and Nova Scotia.

My design and sculpture work revolves around the concept of recycling salvaged materials from the Industrial Age. When taken out of context of their original intent, these objects become iconic, mysterious and incongruous. The viewer is challenged and often befuddled by what they are seeing, thus opening to them a new way of viscerally experiencing these reinvented forms.

These salvaged materials were born out of an age where function trumped form in service to our industrial appetites. The transition from steel to composite materials will render steel in the not-too-distant future somewhat irrelevant, considering the pace of these technological developments. The intention of my sculpture is to connect the viewer to these tactile and iconic materials that are forever anchored in another age.

When not creating sculpture, my energies are engaged with commercial, documentary and feature film production. Since 1977, I have served as a cameraman, line producer, producer and writer. My film career began with a collaboration in the late 70s on several feature films as cameraman, with award- winning avant-garde filmmaker Walter Ungerer and Dark Horse Films.