Thomas Tulis

Thomas Tulis (born 1961 in Chattanooga, Tennessee) is an American photographer and painter living and working in Atlanta, Georgia.

Tulis lives a very simple life. [Feaster, "Buh-bye Boho."] A sparseness that seems to infuse his work with a complexity not known to many in the art world.

His eye is the lens of his camera. He anticipates an image to capture the essence of his subject matter.He creates surreal worlds experiencial.

After a couple of years of college, Tulis joined the U.S. Army. After the army he put all of his time and efforts into his art. In 1985 he was able to open his first studio and that same year was asked to do his first exhibition.

Work

* In "The South by Its Photographers" curated by Ellen Fleurov, Tulis' work was included with many other Southern artists including Shelby Lee Adams, Walter Beckham, Debbie Fleming Caffery, William Christenberry, Chip Cooper, William Greiner, [See Greiner's CV [http://www.williamgreiner.com/biography.asp?strNav=biography here] .] Birney Imes, Jack Spencer and Melissa Springer among others. This exhibition travelled from the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, Alabama to Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, South Carolina and the Louisiana Center for Arts and Sciences Baton Rouge, Louisiana. This became an auspicious exhibition that spurred the careers of many of these Southern photographers. This exhibition was also made into a book by Susan Sipple Elliott, with an introduction by John E. Schloder , "The South by Its Photographers."

* In 2003, Tulis was chosen to be part of [http://www.wcma.org/press/03/03brouws.shtml "Wait Until Dark"] along with Lewis Balz, Harvey Caplin, Todd Hido, David Leventhal, William Greiner, Michael Kenna, O. Winston Link, Richard Misrach, Jules Shulman, George Tice and Henry Wessel. The exhibition took place at The Williams College Museum of Art, Fresno, California. The photographers for this exhibit were selected from the photography collection of Jay Richard DiBiaso.

* In June 2002, Tulis work was selected to be part of 'House: Ten Artists Photograph Domestic Architecture,' an exhibit curated by Carol John at ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art. Evie McKenna, Rinnie Allen, Michael Stipe, Carl Martin, and Mark Steinmetz were also included in this exhibition. ["House: Ten Artists Photograph Domestic Architecture" [http://www.athica.org/exhibit.php?ID=12&action=More] .]

* In 2004, Tulis work was chosen to be part of [http://www.thecontemporary.org/pages/gallery/gallery_pastex.html "So Atlanta: Artists Respond to the Contemporary City"] curated by Felicia Feaster Helena Reckitt. The exhibition also included the work of Karen Rich Beall, Sarah Doughrety, Samm Hill, Ron Jude and Ohm Phanphiroj among others.

* He has also shown at "The Contemporary" in Atlanta. Tulis was represented by Agnes having had two solo and several group exhibitions there. [According to [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_8_87/ai_55439581 this] .]

* His work has been covered by "Frank 151", "Creative Loafing", "American Photography", "Aperture," [No. 130, according to [http://www.thenocturnes.com/newsletter/nitenus22.htm "Night News" Vol. 5 No. 4] .] "Image Geek", "ShotsMag", "The Sun", "Oxford American" and "Viewfinder".

* Tulis exhibited the now infamous, experimental art space [http://www.shimonlindemann.com/pages/newportfolio/pages/neopostnow.htm "Neo-Post-Now Gallery] from 1992 to 1997. The gallery was located in Manitowoc, Wisconsin and also exhibited the work of Matt Fink, Brett Hanson, Jimmy von Milwaukee, Eric Lunde, Alan Luft, Nigel, Lamar Sorrento, James Stark, and Bob Watt among many others.

*His work is in numerous collections throughout the US and Europe such as the "Milwaukee Museum of Art", "Mint Museum of Art", the "Museum of Modern Art" the "Brooklyn Museum of Art", the [http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:vQ_b2tnuTfoJ:www.pd.org/~thatguy/content_Virt01.html+%22Thomas+Tulis%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=34&gl=us "Orlando Museum of Art"] , the "New Orleans Museum of Art" as well as the "New York Public Library". [ [http://www.oysterboyreview.com/archived/10/tulis-lunch.html Various Public Collections of Tulis work] ]

* In 1997, Tulis was Artist in Residence at "Pouch Cove Foundation" located near St. John's, the capital of the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, is a self-sustaining, not for profit art retreat.

Quotes

* Two hundred and fifty images laid before me and I was enthralled. They were perfect. I wished I used more of them. The photography brought a sense of presence, of immediacy and of realism to a space that I knew would soon be awash in metaphors within a visionary frame. -Steven Guynup [ [http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/designsonblake/komisaruk/komisaruk.html Blake and Virtuality: An Exchange with Adam Komisaruk, Steven Guynup and Fred Yee] ]

Books

* [http://www.thenocturnes.com/newsletter/nitenus22.htm "Explorations: 10 Portfolios"] , Aperture No. 130, Winter 1993, The Aperture Foundation, 1993. ISBN 0-89381-529-2
* [http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/s/south_photographers.html "The South By Its Photographers,"] Photographic images by forty-eight of the South's best photographers by Susan Sipple Elliott, introduction by John E. Schloder, University Press of Mississippi, 68pgs. ISBN 0-87805-954-7
* [http://www.amazon.ca/dp/0393040305 "New Life: Stories and Photographs from the Suburban South"] by Alex Harris 249pgs. W. W. Horton, 1996 ISBN-10: 0393040305 and ISBN-13: 978-0393040302

Notes

External links

* [http://www.artworldsofatlanta.wikispaces.com/Thomas+Tulis Biography one short paragraph about Tulis] at Art Worlds of Atlanta
* [http://www.atlanta.creativeloafing.com/2003-07-24/cover_feature.html Buh-bye Boho: When bohemia meets middle age, it's fight or flight time. -Tulis's lifestyle] (Cover Feature) by Feaster, Felicia
* [http://www.apachecafe.info/imagegallery.php A photography of Tulis] attending Art Mondays at "Apache Cafe", Atlanta, Georgia
* [http://www.artincontext.org/artist/t/thomas_tulis/ "Art in Context" Center for Communications] , Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
* [http://www.squidco.com/r.cgi?p=7401 "Squidco"] , Tulis produced the photography for the 2005 album "Not On Earth...In Your Soul!", also available in vinyl
* [http://www.corbettgriffith.com/performance/ripe/ Corbett Griffith Performance Art] "Ripe" 2004, Photography by Tulis
* [http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:vQ_b2tnuTfoJ:www.pd.org/~thatguy/content_Virt01.html+%22Thomas+Tulis%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=34&gl=us 1998 Digital Americana Show] , "The Orlando Museum of Art" Orlando, Florida with Moebius Kid, Winners "Best Conceptual Advancement, "Avatar as Content", 1999
* [http://www.photographsdonotbend.com/artists/tulis.html Photos Do Not Bend," Dallas, Texas] sales of Tulis's works
* [http://www.oysterboyreview.com/archived/10/tulis-lunch.html Oyster Boy Review #10] with examples to work by Tulis
* [http://people.tribe.net/blue93/photos/35d86c8d-559f-4f5c-b490-cabaabc665da "Tribe"] Photography by Tulis, 2005
* [http://artworldsofatlanta.wikispaces.com/Thomas+Tulis "Art Worlds of Atlanta"] Ben Apfelbaum attribute to Tulis work
* [http://www.thecontemporary.org/pics/SoAtlanta/pages/3Tulis_.html "Atlanta Contemporary Art Center"] Example of Tulis "Graffiti Series, 2002"