September 9 – November 15, 2025
Opening Reception: Tuesday, September 9, 5:00-6:30p.m.
Artist’s Gallery Talk: Tuesday, September 9, 5:30p.m.
Thomas Sleet is an artist who lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri. He creates pieces that focus on intersections of the natural world with the man-made and the synergistic design probabilities created at that juncture. Drawing on his interest and fascination with nature, including the ways nature uses materials and builds geometrically, Sleet informs, and reforms, salvaged manufactured elements. He gives these a new life in the form of organic geometric structures imbued with a spirit, creating sacred vessels.
Sleet received his BFA in Ceramics with a minor in Sculpture from Washington University in St. Louis and has maintained a working studio since 1980. He has mounted three solo shows at the Bruno David Gallery in St. Louis, a solo show in 2002 at the Mitchell Museum at Cedar Hurst in Mt. Vernon, Illinois, and has had works exhibited at Elliot Smith Contemporary Art in St. Louis, as well as the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Ohio. In addition, Sleet has hosted artist residencies and seminars at Webster University, University of Missouri at St. Louis, the College School, and the School for Visual and Performing Arts, a magnet school of St. Louis Public Schools.
Thomas Sleet’s website: https://thomassleetart.com
Featured image: Thomas Sleet, Ark of Freedom (2021) wood, linseed oil, shoe polish, 132 x 156 x 84 in.