About

Name

Colleen McCulla-Thomas

Artist Bio

Colleen McCulla-Thomas was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and resided in London before moving to Texas in the mid-1970s. Colleen has been a practicing mixed-media artist since 1982. She has a BFA in Sculpture from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, and graduated with honors with a Masters' in Secondary Education from Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas.

Colleen won best of the show in the 2015 “Seven State Biennial Exhibition” at Nesbitt Gallery, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, Chickasha, Oklahoma with juror, James Surls. This award led to an invitation and a successful solo show in 2018 “Ladies in Waiting” at the same venue. Colleen has exhibited nationally and broadly in Texas.

Prior to Colleen’s current endeavors she worked as a carpenter and stone carver including but not limited to the gate entry at Old Oaks Ranch Road in Wimberley, Texas.

Colleen currently resides and works from her studio, in Martindale, Texas.

Artist Statement

My art reflects multilayered symbols that address current world issues while seeking spiritual meaning. It often entails a paradox of meanings, and how it can be both positive and negative at the same time, which brings balance and choice. It is environmental, political, feminist, and spiritual. It seeks to communicate with the entire being’s point of view as the work reveals itself to the viewer in their contemplations about its purpose.

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Exhibitions2021
      The State of Sculpture, an All-Member Exhibition of the Texas Scu
      
        at
        
          The San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts,
        
        San Angelo, Texas.
      
Juror: Johannah Hutchinson.
2019
      Splendora Gardens Invitational, Texas Sculpture Group
      
        at
        
          Splendora Gardens,
        
        Splendora, Texas
      
Sponsored by Ruby (executive director), Charmaine, and James Surls, with artistic director Alton Dulaney.
2019
      “Pop-up”; Texas Sculpture Group
      
        at
        
          Lone Star Studios,
        
        San Antonio, Texas.
      
Bill Fitz Gibbons Studio
2018
      Ladies in Waiting
      
        at
        
          Nesbitt Gallery,
        
        Chickasha, OK
      
2017
      “Profusion in the Void”, New works by the Texas Sculpture Group
      
        at
        
          Art Space 111,
        
        Fort Worth, Texas
      
2016
      “"Between Stillness and Motion: Twelve Texas Sculptors”
      
        at
        
          The Arts Center,
        
        College Station, Texas.
      
Juror: Alison de Lima Greene
2015
      the 8th Seven State Biennial – Juror: James Surls.
      
        at
        
          Traveling show see notes for details,
        
        Oklahoma
      
The show will open in USAO’s Nesbitt Gallery Sept. 26 and run through Nov. 4, after which it travels to the Charles B. Goddard Center in Ard
2015
      “Pop-up”; Texas Sculpture Group
      
        at
        
          Bill Fitz Gibbons Studio,
        
        San Antonio, Texas
      
2015
      Ladies in Waiting
      
        at
        
          Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. Exhibit,
        
        Austin, Texas
      
2014
      “A Panoramic View: Texas Sculpture Group” Juror: James Surls
      
        at
        
          Selected Works by Dr. Laura Petican, Galleries Dir,
        
        Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.
      
2014
      “A Panoramic View: Texas Sculpture Group”
      
        at
        
          Lawndale Art Center,
        
        Houston, Texas
      
Juror: James Surls
2014
      “17th International Open”
      
        at
        
          Woman Made Gallery,
        
        Chicago IL.
      
Juror: Mayra Greene
2013
      In Depth
      
        at
        
          Art Car Museum,
        
        Houston, Texas
      
Juror: Director Noah Edmunds

mentioned in the art review of the show in the paper
2012
      Scale a Gathering of Sculptors
      
        at
        
          Blue Star Gallery,
        
        San Antonio, TX
      
Juror: Philip King.
2012
      “Transformations,”
      
        at
        
          Coastal Bend College Fine Art Gallery,
        
        Beeville, Texas
      
Two-person show with Caprice Pierucci.