The Gallery at the Linen Building is a second-floor, loft-style art gallery located inside the Linen Building Event Center. With natural light, warm sunsets and bird's-eye views of Downtown Boise and the Linen District, The Gallery offers artists and art lovers a fresh, unique urban space in which to display and view art.

Since opening in August 2009, The Gallery at the Linen Building has featured several exhibits showcasing the work of some of Idaho's top professional artists, as well as student and faculty artists from Boise State University. If you are interested in exhibiting your work, please review our Submission Guidelines for more information.

Dave Thomas’ “Time Line Paintings” will open at 5 p.m. First Thursday, Jan. 5, at The Gallery at the Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St. in Downtown Boise’s Linen District. The exhibit will run through Feb. 20.  The “Time Line Paintings” series, which features four large mixed-media canvases and 20 mixed-media studies on polypropylene, began in 2009 and “continues to be a thought,” Thomas says. “If I didn’t make this particular painting today, then it would never be made — my time I’m on the planet will end, but time itself will continue.”
“Dave’s work speaks to the moment we’re in, while he taps into his experiences over the course of 45 years,” said David Hale, The Gallery at the Linen Building owner. “The layers of his work represent his life: active with a variety of textures. It's in each individual piece one discovers his loose and experimental style.”

DAVE THOMAS ARTIST STATEMENT
My work is about the moment of the making, titled by the date completed … not preconceived or planned. A documentation of living and painting for the last 45 years of my life … spending time in the Rocky Mountains 30 of those years … the session in the studio … direct and head to work. Considering: materials, art history, current events, my age, my travels, dialog with my peers, my next show venue, who I am, where I came from, where I’m going. Each painting starts with experimentation, discovery, find, loose, trial and error … then investigation and problem solving. All things for me must be worked out in the studio.

ABOUT DAVE THOMAS
Dave Thomas (davethomasart.com) is a Boise painter whose work has exhibited in nine states, including galleries in New York City, Los Angeles and Seattle. A native of Fresno, Calif., he received his BFA and MFA degrees from the California Institute of the Arts and has taught painting at Boise State University.

Latest review on Dave Thomas's current Salt Lake City show.

http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/article-271-15175-dave-thomas-at-house-gallery.html

Recent blog by local artist Pete Grady

http://boise-at-eye-level.blogspot.com/2011/12/dave-thomas-at-gallery-at-linen.html

The Gallery at the Linen Building is open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays and by appointment. For more information, contact Owner David Hale at 208.385.0111 or info@thelinenbuilding.com.