FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Fete Bucolique: Terri Thomas

New Gallery/Thom Andriola
2627 Colquitt St. Houston Texas 77098
Gallery Hours: T-Sat 11-5 PM,
(713)520-7053
info@newgallery.net
www.newgallery.net

Fete Bucolique: Terri Thomas
Exhibition Dates: May 2nd - May 30th, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 2nd. 6-8pm

New Gallery / Thom Andriola are pleased to present Fête Bucolique, an exhibition of new work by Austin, Texas artist Terri Thomas. “Fete bucolique” is a term laden with sexual implications and traditionally refers to a festival of the pastoral life – Thomas’s contemporary “fete bucolique” combines the frivolous fantasy of the French Rococo style with a dose of self-analysis and a media-influenced twist.

Color-saturated, precisely rendered and often shocking, Thomas’ paintings emphasize the ridiculousness of, repulsion from and attraction to social taboos. Infatuated with the media’s portrayal of beauty, sexuality, individuality and femininity her work explores how the media creates and feeds societal expectations. The work in Fête Bucolique is fraught with artifice and symbolism – often Thomas’s form is at center stage simultaneously revealed and masked by the filters of social norms and deviance.

Fête Bucolique is Terri Thomas’s first solo exhibition in Houston. Please join New Gallery for the opening reception of Fete Bucolique on Saturday, May 2nd from 6-8 PM. Please contact Thom Adriola at (713) 520- 7053 or visit www.newgallery.net for further information. For more information about the artist visit www.territhomasart.com.

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