Aaron was in full creative swing today. Look at these amazing pieces.
Aaron completed his "Thinking Tree" chair this weekend. This piece radiates now and creates illusions from every direction. Dreamlike is the only word I can think of to accurately describe it. Here are some photos from the process as well as the finished result.
Well the Winter Olympics are starting up and so is another secret project. These aren't the olympic rings though, these are formed acrylic rings that have been either frosted or painted with a rich gold paint. I'm not sure what Aaron has planned for these but I'm sure we will find out soon enough.
Here are a couple more amazing paintings from the Aaron R. Thomas Studio. Two of them are oil on canvas and another one is spraypaint on acrylic. It is hard to show the depth of the spraypaint on acrylic through photography because this painting moves as you move around it. In certain backlights it even lights up like a stained glass window.
I was sorting through some of our old clients and was amazed at the quantity of amazing client we have had. This is a partial list of incredible clients we have been fortunate enough to work with:
Saks Fifth Avenue
Ron Chespack
William Haines Designs
Charles Hollis Jones
Ralph Lauren
Kawasaki
Yamaha
Rip Curl
Baccarat
DiGi
Dodd Mitchell Design
Frederick’s of Hollywood
Frette
Hayes Inc. Architecture, Interiors
Hotel Valley-Ho
Infinity Motors
John Varvatos
Louis Vuitton
Mandalay Bay Casino
Mercedes Benz
Mulberry USA
Neiman Marcus
Phillipe Starck
Palm Springs Film Festival
SLS Hotel
Starwood Hotels
TBWA / Chiat / Day
The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
The Viceroy Hotel
Thompson Hotels
Tiger Woods Foundation
Verizon
Victoria’s Secret
Smith Optics
Mariessa Wolf
Cheryl Holden
Studio Chameleon
Dana Blower
Green Cube
Richard Wortman
(sub)urban home
Charlie Hedges
HD Buttercup
CRA Design
WATG
Kimpton Hotels
Designlush
Daily Grill
Trestik-Harty
Veggie Grill
Argent Custom Furniture
John Wayne Airport
Newport Sports Museum
California Pizza Kitchen
Vaswani Inc.
Fari International
For those of you who haven't been fortunate enough to visit our studio, I am posting some photos of a few of Aaron's large canvas oil paintings. These amazing abstracts grace our walls but sometimes get downplayed because of all of the other interesting things we have going on. Photos don't truly do these justice because most of them are taller than most people. We are also still working on incorporating them into our virtual art gallery but it can be difficult to show the scale of them.
Aaron played with the idea of modern meets traditional as he developed these pieces for secret purposes. The first piece is a Moroccan screen that is carved out before being painted in an array of sprayed, poured, and stenciled paints. The second is an intricately carved frame for a mirror.
Aaron works on a new take on one of his older chairs. I posted earlier today an old photo of the "Thinking Tree" chair that Aaron created a few years ago. He was so inspired by this photo that he pulled out this piece for a new take on an older piece. Stay tuned...
Ed works on cutting faceted pieces of acrylic for a new table we are working on. Afterward, these pieces will be sanded and polished to a beautiful shine.
Take a look at our friend Ronnie's showroom (SUB)URBAN HOME, located in the heart of downtown LA.
http://www.suburban-la.com/2010/01/30/aaron-r-thomas/
"Modern designs and shapes combined with master craftsmanship" Located in the historic core of downtown Los Angeles (SUB)URBAN Home is the destination to find functional well crafted furnishings in urban LA. A particular aesthetic sensibility unites the showroom where pieces work together and mix well. All custom designs are made in Southern California and can be created to your specifications. Choose from our exclusive showroom or our in house design team can guide you to express your individuality and create that special piece.
We just launched our new Aaron R. Thomas site. The new site features dynamic full screen video, all new photography and video galleries, a virtual fine art gallery, and more. This allows us to keep our clients more up to date with what we are up to.
Aaron is working on a new project for one of our high end retail clients. These are samples of huge panels that will be incorporated into a national store merchandising campaign. More to come...
Aaron was recently commissioned to create a one of a kind table for a private collector. Here is a sneak preview of what he is coming up with...
Balustrade and Bitters came out with their article on Aaron R. Thomas today. If you don't regularly check this online magazine, you should. It is one of the most well written, best photographed online magazines relating to people and spaces.
This piece just went on sale at HD Buttercup in Culver City. This piece is a product of hours of artistic labor. It is made of carefully layered acrylic slabs with multi-colored resin joints formed one after another into a large monolith. Then Aaron carefully chiseled layer after layer to form a twisting, living form. After that, Aaron heated the piece to over 2500 degrees to pull out interesting textures before rapidly cooling with water to leave a flowing pattern over the surface. Finally, hours of hand polishing pulled parts of the sculpture back to clarity. The result is a piece unlike anything ever imagined. You must see the way this piece captures light to appreciate it.
When one of our table saws was wobbling, Aaron took it upon himself to do some quick reinforcements.
Aaron built this enormous sculpture out of a solid piece of six inch thick acrylic from the aerospace industry. He chiseled it by hand before hand painting the different contours. To support this piece, he used a geometric grid of steel I-beams painted with a pearlescent green and violet paint. The acrylic is supported by only a "tuning fork" strategically placed. This piece balances perfectly at this daring angle. While moving it on the forklift, the entire piece flexed and torqued in perfect balance.
This beautiful 4" thick acrylic sculpture is made from sandwiched acrylic with grass and hand painted lettering glued between the layers. Available now at HD Buttercup.
This sculpture was created by laminating layers of acrylic together with natural grass and painted text. The entire piece has an ethereal feeling to it and is very calming. This piece is available for purchase at HD Buttercup in Culver City.
Aaron adds some vertical stripes to his newest set of table lamps. These are available exclusively at HD Buttercup
Aaron just finished building two new tables. One is a tall smoke waterfall table, the dark, sultry sister of our clear purist acrylic waterfall table. Built completely by hand with perfect curves and crisp edges. The second one of a kind piece is made from custom stainless steel corner hardware that support Honduran mahogany beams with sculpted acrylic legs and a deeply painted table top. This table exemplifies Aaron's deftly capable hands in a multitude of materials.
Here are a few photos of a new bracelet that Aaron made out of a sheet of stainless steel. This bracelet is the result of hours of labor to form and manipulate the stainless into a piece of wearable art.
Aaron created this piece out of recycled acrylic. Instead of recycling it, he actually "upcycled it by using these pieces to create this chain artwork. Every piece was heated to 350 degrees before being bent together into this chain. Then Aaron painted them and applied thick clear coat. This piece looks different from every angle.
After hand painting this piece with four individual layers to build up the entire look, it is time to undress the chair to get it ready for final clean up. Every piece is a labor of love and gets hours of hands on attention.
We had some fun with the forklift and Aaron's sculpture this morning. This kinetic sculpture looked amazing blowing in the wind with the real trees.
Unless we can use the spectrometer to get an exact color match, a lot of fine tuning and guesswork is involved. Here is a glimpse of the process.
After Coleen left today she left a beautiful set up. This is Aaron's chandelirium floor lamp in front of one of his large oil paintings.
Coleen Rider was in the studio today shooting some photos for the Balustrade and Bitters Magazine. It is a great online magazine that highlights and celebrates interesting people and the spaces and businesses they create.
This new table features four unique hand carved legs, custom fabricated stainless steel hardware, hand cut and finished Honduran mahogany cross bars supporting a hand painted acrylic top.
We were up in Manhattan Beach yesterday visiting the residence of some clients and making sure that the beautiful machined German hardware we were attaching to these art panels went flawlessly. This hardware effectively turns these enormous commissioned panels into sliding doors that completely transform a hallway. The entire home was built around art with originals from Picasso and Warhol as well as multiple pieces by Aaron R. Thomas. The entire color scheme was created around his "Happiness" sculpture and it features prominently in the main entertaining area of the home.
Aaron finished this chair last night. It is a solid 1" thick piece of acrylic bent into a form chair and then painted on in our studio over the coarse of a year. The back consists of a french colonial design that Aaron carved in relief out of a 1" thick piece of clear acrylic before hand polishing. The entire chair is set off by beautiful polished stainless steel hardware.
Here are some more photos of the simulated woodgrain table tops that we created. The colors shift and change completely depending on the direction of the light. The edges are beautiful too because of the different reflective angles.
Aaron uses an automotive paint gun along with specially developed tools to simulate woodgrain in a silver metallic color matched paint for a restaurant project.
Here are a couple more photos of Aaron's new subtractive painting piece. It has so much character and texture that photos hardly do it justice. You can see it at (SUB)URBAN in Los Angeles.
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