EDUCATION
1970-74 BFA Major: Painting and Art History, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio
1974-75 Emphasis Painting, Drawing, and Art History, New York Studio School, New York City, New York
1975-76 Emphasis Painting, Queens College Graduate School, Queens, New York
1977 Emphasis Printmaking, Art Students’ League,, New York City, New York
Bio
Thomas Helmick is a local artist who has lived and created art in Fort Worth for numerous years. Originally from Ohio, where he received a BFA from Kent State University. His postgraduate studies were in New York City at the New York Studio School, Queens College Graduate School, and the Art Students League. During Thomas’s years in New York City, he studied with such prominent NYC artists as Jack Tworkov, Philip Guston, George McNeil, Harry Kramer, and numerous others who would happen by the school. The best part of the 3 ½ years in NYC was access to all the major museums, the Metropolitan, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, and the Whitney. Plus, all the galleries, the Soho galleries downtown, and the high-end galleries uptown. That exposure to so much art was a wonderful enhancement to his formative art education.
As an artist in Fort Worth, he has been represented by the following Art Galleries: Kornye Gallery in Dallas, Edmond Craige Gallery in Fort Worth, and the Monet Gallery in Arlington. His work is in numerous private collections here in Fort Worth, Dallas, New York, California,
Florida and Ohio. Thomas has been a long-time participant in the Camp Fire’s “An Artist’s Christmas” and in Historic Fort Worth’s “Preservation is the Art of the City”, having won awards in both.
ARTIST STATEMENT
The work shown here is part of a continued study of landscape. In a landscape, as in all nature, there is a certain indomitable power and mystical beauty. It is these rare places untouched by the desensitizing encroachment of all of us that I am drawn to, that excite me, and at the same time provide solace. Since my early years as an artist, it has been my desire to capture this essence of natural landscape in abstract form.
Awards:
Touring Citation “At The Edge”
Texas Fine Arts Association,
International Print And Drawing Exhibition
“Paint The Town” Mural Competition (One of four)
“An Artist’s Christmas” to support Camp Fire USA.
Historic Fort Worth “Preservation is the Art of the City.”
ART IN THE METROPLEX
Main Street Art Festival
Main Street Fine Arts Competition
Shows:
“The Trinity Series” UTA:
Petroleum Club, Fort Worth
Community Arts Center, Fort Worth
Steinway Hall Fort Worth
Elm Street Gallery, Irving
Gordon House Gallery, Granbury
Site: Brooklyn Gallery, New York
Gallery Kornye, Dallas,
Edmond Craige Gallery, Fort Worth
Monet Gallery, Arlington.
