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THOMAS SPANDE
Thomas Spande
Thomas Benjamin Spande was born in Washington D.C. in 1972. He attended school in Bethesda, and spent weekends in Rappahannock County, Virginia, where he exhibited his early realist drawings and paintings in street fairs in Sperryville and Little Washington.
He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1996 as a Studio Art Major. His studies included work with Professor Mark Wethli, a realist artist at the time, and a summer of printmaking made possible by a Mellon Grant, which led to a one-person show at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. He studied artistic anatomy at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in his junior year in Paris, developing a foundation of realist painting and drawing that continues to inform his work.
After graduating from the Maryland Institute College of Art's Post-Baccalaureate Program, Spande dedicated his time to a career of painting and showing art in galleries, including one he ran himself in the Hampden district of Baltimore, the Greyhouse Gallery. Spande works consistently to exhibit paintings in which balance, color, and the capturing of effects of light are embraced, while exploring a diversity of subject matter that distinguishes his oeuvre from that of most traditional painters.
Thomas Spande
Thomas Benjamin Spande was born in Washington D.C. in 1972. He attended school in Bethesda, and spent weekends in Rappahannock County, Virginia, where he exhibited his early realist drawings and paintings in street fairs in Sperryville and Little Washington.
He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1996 as a Studio Art Major. His studies included work with Professor Mark Wethli, a realist artist at the time, and a summer of printmaking made possible by a Mellon Grant, which led to a one-person show at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. He studied artistic anatomy at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in his junior year in Paris, developing a foundation of realist painting and drawing that continues to inform his work.
After graduating from the Maryland Institute College of Art's Post-Baccalaureate Program, Spande dedicated his time to a career of painting and showing art in galleries, including one he ran himself in the Hampden district of Baltimore, the Greyhouse Gallery. Spande works consistently to exhibit paintings in which balance, color, and the capturing of effects of light are embraced, while exploring a diversity of subject matter that distinguishes his oeuvre from that of most traditional painters.
