barbara campbell thomas's work combines painting with quilting, overlaying their material vocabularies to create complex formal dialogues that resonate with the details of her own life and the history of each medium. she came relatively late to quilting, which she learned from her mother, but quickly realized its power as an art form traditionally practiced by women to inform and expand the range of painting.
barbara’s paintings have been exhibited in museums and galleries across the united states: at the weatherspoon art museum, the virginia center for contemporary arts, the painting center, the atlanta center for contemporary art, the southeastern center for contemporary art and the north carolina museum of art. she has been an artist-in-residence at the hambidge center, the skowhegan school for painting and sculpture, the elizabeth murray artist residency and the virginia center for creative arts. she is a recipient of a north carolina artists fellowship.
barbara campbell thomas is an professor of art in the school of art at unc greensboro. she lives and works in climax, nc.
barbara campbell thomas's work combines painting with quilting, overlaying their material vocabularies to create complex formal dialogues that resonate with the details of her own life and the history of each medium. she came relatively late to quilting, which she learned from her mother, but quickly realized its power as an art form traditionally practiced by women to inform and expand the range of painting.
barbara’s paintings have been exhibited in museums and galleries across the united states: at the weatherspoon art museum, the virginia center for contemporary arts, the painting center, the atlanta center for contemporary art, the southeastern center for contemporary art and the north carolina museum of art. she has been an artist-in-residence at the hambidge center, the skowhegan school for painting and sculpture, the elizabeth murray artist residency and the virginia center for creative arts. she is a recipient of a north carolina artists fellowship.
barbara campbell thomas is an professor of art in the school of art at unc greensboro. she lives and works in climax, nc.
relay 2023
acrylic & collage on pieced & sewn fabric and canvas
48 x 36 inches
$5,600
mirroring 2023
acrylic & collage on pieced & sewn fabric and canvas
36 x 48 inches
$5,600
patch 2023
acrylic & collage on pieced & sewn fabric and canvas
24 x 24 inches
$3,200
edna's diamond 2023
acrylic & collage on pieced & sewn fabric and canvas
36 x 48 inches
sold
blue 2023
acrylic & collage on pieced & sewn fabric and canvas
36 x 48 inches
sold
full 2023
acrylic & collage on pieced & sewn fabric and canvas
24 x 24 inches
sold
anchor 2023
acrylic & collage on pieced & sewn fabric and canvas
24 x 24 inches
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grounding 2023
acrylic & collage on pieced & sewn fabric and canvas
24 x 24 inches
sold
tip 2023
acrylic & collage on pieced & sewn fabric and canvas
24 x 24 inches
sold
many-sided 2023
acrylic & collage on pieced & sewn fabric and canvas
24 x 24 inches
sold
turn 3 2022
collaged fabric, collaged cut-up paintings, spray paint, acrylic paint on canvas with insets of pieced & machine-stitched fabric
30 x 22 inches
sold
the open absence 2021
collaged fabric, collaged cut-up paintings, spray paint, acrylic painton canvas with insets of pieced & machine-stitched fabric
20 x 22 inches
sold
turn 2020
collaged fabric, collaged cut-up paintings, spray paint, acrylic paint on canvas with insets of pieced & machine-stitched fabric
36 x 30 inches
sold