Intimate landscapes
Thomas Paquette
June 10th, 2026 — July 3rd, 2027
Opening Reception Gallery Night Friday, June 26th
July 31st, 2026 Artist Talk & Gallery Walk
In a two part exhibition from June 10th, 2026 through July 3rd, 2027, 150 of Paquette’s miniature gouaches, along with a few examples of his large scale oil paintings, will be displayed. His work can be found around the world in numerous private, corporate, and public collections. Paquette lives on the edge of the Allegheny National Forest outside of Warren, PA.
Thomas Paquette | Highland Ponies, Glen Mor, Alladale Wilderness | Oil on Canvas | 2019 | On loan from Andrew and Michele Sokolski
About the Artist
Thomas Paquette, who originally hails from Minneapolis, dropped out of art school midway through his first year, constructing his own studies of the world through a decidedly unacademic course: On and off for the next six years, he explored North America and its great natural places by hitchhiking and hopping freight trains that carried him many thousands of miles back and forth to the edges of the continent and as far away as Alaska, where the rails and roads ran out. He quite literally immersed himself in the landscape, intermittently returning to work on his academic degrees.
After those vagabonding years he graduated summa cum laude from Bemidji State University in Minnesota with BFA in Painting, and finished an MFA degree in Painting on a full fellowship at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He has been a full-time painter since his formal studies ended. His works have been displayed in more than seventy solo exhibitions in several museums and galleries across the country.