Lex R Thomas
Exhibitions

Exhibitions

Upcoming Exhibitions:


Fierté de la Louisiane

Group Exhibition at Creative Exchange

Jun 2024 Ruston, LA

Creative Exchange’s annual pride show this year is Fierté de la Louisiana (Louisiana Pride).
On display from June 1st through June 28th, this exhibit is open to LGBTQIA+ artists and allies currently living in Louisiana and those who grew up in Louisiana.

On view from June 1, 2024 to June 28, 2024.

Reception: June 22nd, 12pm – 2pm


Recent Exhibitions:


61st Annual Juried Competition

Juried Group Exhibition at the Masur Museum

Mar 2024 Monroe, LA

The Masur Museum of Art’s Annual Juried Competition showcases contemporary artists throughout the United States of America working in any medium. First started in 1964, the Annual Juried Competition is the Masur Museum’s longest-running tradition and one of its best-reviewed exhibitions each year. Annually, 700-1000 recent artworks are submitted by artists all over the nation, in all styles and media. The Masur Museum is proud to offer cash awards totaling $3,200.

Sponsored by The Northeast Louisiana Arts Council
Juror: Kerry Inman, Inman Gallery of Houston, TX


Wildflowers

Solo Exhibition at the Alamo Artist Studios

Nov 2023 Lafayette, LA

WILDFLOWERS is an ArtSpark grant project by Lex R. Thomas. This exhibition features live models from within the local LGBT+ community and anonymous responses from attendees during 2023 Pride Acadiana. With their steadfast perseverance, Acadiana queer individuals exemplify a unique beauty that could not have arisen without this combination of their marginalized identities and their heritage. Hopefully this exhibition instills in the viewer an appreciation for this distinctly Acadian subculture at a time when it is actively being repressed.

Sponsored by Acadiana Center for the Arts and Lafayette Economic Development Authority


Lex R. Thomas and Scott Finch

Duo Exhibition at Frameworks Gallery

Sep 2023 Baton rouge, LA

Duo Exhibition featuring visual artists Lex R. Thomas and Scott Finch.

Scott Finch graduated from Louisiana State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1994 and received his Master of Fine Arts for Painting and Drawing from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in 1996. He regularly exhibits his drawings, collages, and paintings, and is currently completing his third graphic novel, The Domesticated Afterlife, which will be published by Antenna later this year.


Linkrot x LOUDHOUSE

Premiere Group Exhibition & Experimental Performance

Sep 2023 Lafayette, LA

LOUDHOUSE’s debut group exhibition, Link Rot, was held in a private home on University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s campus. Multidisciplinary artists collaborated to transform the house into an immersive walk-through gallery, complete with performance art, sculpture, music, paintings, and culinary attractions which took place over a 5 hour period.


Cur Non

Juried Group Exhibition at the Acadiana Center for the Arts

Jun 2023 Lafayette, LA

AcA has invited artists to respond to the theme of “Cur Non” in order to envision what may come in the next 200 years here in Lafayette Parish and the City of Lafayette. In this phrase AcA invites artists to expand their personal practices to be as audacious as the Marquis.

“Cur Non” will resonate as a statement of the artworks being made at this contemporary moment within the practices of artists in our community. With this prompt, AcA has invited artists to challenge themselves in their craft, to take chances within what they imagine for themselves, and to dwell on the intersection of the many cultures and histories that make up contemporary Lafayette.

Juror: French-Algerian artist & curator Camille Farrah Lenain.


Assez / Enough

Group Exhibition at Basin Arts

Jan 2023 Lafayette, LA

Artists living and working in Southern Louisiana often contend with the region’s beautiful landscape and rich culture that is starkly contrasted by a violent, racist past and environmental hardships. This group exhibition relates to the examination of Southern identity, and presents works that contend with the unstable nature of this region’s environment and reflects on Creole and French histories.
Participating artists include: Nelson Auguillard, Bob Borel, Steve Breaux, Chet Bromstein, Raine Curole, Louis Deumite, Lynda Frese, Callie Istre, Chase Julien, Kelli Scott Kelley, Annabeth Mejia, Chris Pavlik, Kathy Reed, Kelli Foret Richard, Herb Roe, Lex R. Thomas, Vincent W., and Michael Wright
Guest Curator: Bethany Lejeune 

The Human Condition

Solo Exhibition at Gallery Russo

Jan 2023 Lafayette, LA

I investigate the stories of humanity via brushstrokes on canvas – but not the ones which we share with anyone outside our own minds. My figurative paintings inspired by nature echo the emotions that we experience in solitude. By mixing one color at a time and layering them into human forms, creatures, and landscapes, I reveal moments of intimacy, reflection, tragedy, and grief – the human condition.


Eye of the Beholder

Juried Group Exhibition at the Lafayette Art Association Gallery

OCT 2022 Lafayette, LA

lexrthomas artist exhibition invitation for eye of the beholder group art show

From watercolors, to pen and ink, to pottery, to sculpture, and beyond––works of many of Lafayette’s most talented visual artists will be on display for the Lafayette Art Association’s annual open competition and awards.