Autumn T. Thomas

To Muse the Labyrinth, Autumn T. Thomas and PlatteForum’s ArtLab Interns, 2020

Image by Wes Magyar

Autumn T. Thomas, Colorado | wood sculpture and installation

Residency period: August 31 - October 15, 2020

Exhibition Title: To Muse the Labyrinth

Exhibition Opening: October 15, 2020

Thomas creates curved sculptures by placing hundreds of cuts into straight pieces of wood, allowing it to bend and curve, mimicking the endurance required to thrive amidst intersecting forms of bias. Her exhibition at PlatteForum, titled To Muse the Labyrinth, explores what it means to be a Black artist, lost between worlds of anger, resolve, and conjecture. It is a safe space, the walls of which contain the voices of the lost, their trauma shed and their futures reclaimed. During her residency, Thomas will guide PlatteForum’s ArtLab high school interns through a series of 3D printing workshops.

About the Artist

Autumn T. Thomas (b. 1978) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Denver, Colorado. Currently she is working in wood sculpture. Her artwork challenges the boundaries of visual literacy by transforming wood into soft, twisting forms, mimicking the endurance required to thrive amidst the oppression and marginalization of women of color. Minimal in design, Thomas' work personifies analogous, brown bodies as whispering forms of subversion, affecting prejudice by way of perception and visual literacy. 

Thomas received her MFA in Book Arts and Printmaking from The University of the Arts, Philadelphia in 2017 and her BFA in Visual Communication from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015.

Virtual walk through courtesy of Muntz Studios