Larry Thomas received MA and MFA degrees Printmaking and Drawing from the University of Iowa, and a BFA in Drawing and Printmaking from Missouri State University.  He’s been in over a hundred regional, national, and international exhibitions and in more than ninety corporate, public, and private collections including the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art.  He taught for 40 years at 3 different colleges. The last 25 years were in the Fine Arts Department at Johnson County Community College where he taught Drawing, Painting and Digital Imaging for Artists, and retired as Professor and Chair of the Fine Art and Photography Department. 

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Larry Thomas passed away from cancer in 2021.

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"At first glance my work might appear quite abstract.  Closer inspection reveals glimpses, fragments, or passages of potentially more recognizable shapes.  Utilizing the traditional mediums of paint, printmaking and collage with the contemporary medium of digitally generated images, I explore the concepts of perception, deception, invisibility and camouflage, both visually and metaphorically."

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This site is maintained by his son Collin Thomas. He can be reached at collin@collinthomas.net.