Freddy Thomas
freddyt22300@gmail.com
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Freddy Thomas is a queer, Boston based, interdisciplinary artist and designer working in printmaking, fibers, and installation. They graduated from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2022 with a dual degree in printmaking and interrelated media.
Their work explores themes of performance and perfromativity. They integrate concept with materiality and characterization in order to create vignettes to evoke a sense of empathy.

Please send inquiries to freddyt22300@gmail.com


My work focuses on the daily performances that everyone takes on every day-- these can range from acts as broad to job responsibilities to as rigid as performance of gender roles. Who are we when we take on these roles and why are they impacted by the world around us.  My work manifests in printmaking, fibers, and installation. This variety of mediums allows me to explore these concepts in different ways.

Content-wise my work explores the limiting factors that hyper masculinity puts on our daily performances. A repeating subject in my printed work are clowns which represent multiple aspects of performance including: queer bodies and expression, masculine forms in positions of vulnerability, and a subject who is expected to perform. In my fibers work I continue this exploration through projects that are historically considered to be feminine such as sewing or beading— craftwork which has been deemed less than due to a misogynistic discredit to what is considered to be “craft” over art.  









Exhibitions and Awards

Exhibitions

  • MassArt Auction - Massachusetts College of Art and Design - 621 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA - (2023-2026)
  • Fay Chandler Emerging Artist Exhibition - Boston City Hall - 1 City Hall Square, Boston,  MA - (2024)
  • Portsmouth Printmaking Exhibition - 3S Artspace - 319 Vaughan St, Portsmouth, NH - (2024)
  • New Impressions Printmaking Studio Exhibition -  New Impressions Printmaking Studio - 52 Broadway, Somerville, MA - (2024)
  • Rising Stars - Highlighting Printmaking at MassArt (2023) - Lincoln Arts Project - 289 Moody St, Waltham, MA  - (2023)
  • “A Formal Invitation” Solo Show (2022) - Godine  Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design - 621 Huntington Ave , Boston, MA - 2022


Awards
  • Juror’s Choice - Fay Chandler Emerging Artist Exhbition 2024
  • Departmental Honors - MassArt Printmaking 2022
  • MassArt FA2D “Above and Beyond” Award Recepient 2022










Selected Works

Serenade - Silkscreen on canvas with glass beads - 2025
Just A Peek - Silkscreen - 2025
Cat and Mouse - Silkscreen - 2025
For Home not Country - Silkscreen - 2025
Romance Isn’t Dead - Two plate softground stching - 2024
Winner of Juror’s Choice at the 2024 Fay Chandler Emerging Art Exhibition
All so Familiar - Collagraph - 2023
Absoultion - Etching with aquatint - 2023
Sinking Feeling - Two plate softground etching - 2022
An Involved Lesson on Recursion - Softground etching - 2022


Additional Work



SHOWSTOPPER (2022)




SHOWSTOPPER - Lithograph on fabric, glass beads, jar, polyfill, real sword - 2022

BOXES (2022)

Recursive Box - Wooden box, camera, projector, lock, key, you. - 2022


Enter the Tower - Wooden box, etching, handmade paper, fabric, pva glue, lock, key, you. - 2022

The Key is Under the Mat - Wooden box, collagrah, fabric, polyfill, pva glue, lock, key, you. - 2022
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Soft Viscera - Wooden box, fabric, lithograph on satin, beads, clay, lock, key, you. - 2022