Couldn't everyone's life just be a work of art? *


—Michel Foucault


Butler (Black Cowboy) from the Landscapes Series

inkjet print, 24x36 inches, 2026

Desert Diptych (Zion, Moab) from the Locales Series

inkjet prints, each 24x36 inches, 2026


Detour 1 (Ed and Eddie Ruscha GAP ad

with Minimalist Composition)

mixed media collage and on steel road sign

36 x 24 inches, 2020


Mick Jones with Avocado Toast

mixed media collage, walnut artist frame

13 x 17 inches, 2020


Thomas Dolan, b. 1962, is an American artist living in Southwest Utah. He makes paintings, collages, and large-scale prints that explore the aesthetic spaces where art, design and pop culture overlap. While rooted in a classically modern and minimalist approach, the work embraces complexity and is realized with a wry, conceptual edge. Dolan has shown internationally, published widely and created commissioned works. He attended Pomona College and has degrees from ArtCenter College of Design (MFA '91) and California Institute of the Arts (BFA '85). He is the author of 22 Truths on Art and Art-Making.



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* "What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to lives. Art has become a thing which is specialized and which is done by experts, whom we call artists. But couldn't everyone's life just be a work of art? Why should a lamp or a house or a painting be regarded as an art object, but not our life?"


Michel Foucault, from On the genealogy of ethics: An overview of work in progress, 1984.



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