An Introduction to Thie

Hello Reader. My name is Thie Gold. It is actually an Alias, as I use my real name in my architectural professional career, and I would prefer to keep the two worlds (Art and Architecture) separate.

My pallet

I was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and I have navigated my way through the world living in Northern Germany, on the East Coast of the US, and I now reside in Los Angeles, California. Los Angeles now feels like home, and I am happy to be a resident of the city and part of its arts culture.

I have been painting and drawing for a long as I can remember. I was fortunate in high school for two things. One, a large portion of my first two semesters of art class where taken up by art history. Two, I was allowed to paint with oil and not forced into any particular mediums, a fundamental part of my explorations as an artist.

Prior to starting high school, I recall being resentful of the basic art projects that we did in junior high and longing to get to paint and participate in more in depth art ideas in high school. Due to my school's curriculum, I knew the summer before starting high school that I would not be able to take art classes until the second semester of my sophomore year and was terribly disappointed. I asked my parents to buy me a canvas kit from Hobby Lobby that summer and spent hours painting on my first canvas a barn in a field. I was recently at my parent's home looking at that canvas and was impressed with how well executed my technique was. It was the sort of acrylic canvas set that gives you colors and paint bushes with written instructions as to how to paint the scene. After that painting, I felt relieved to finally get to paint a canvas, something I had been longing to do since I was quite young. I then also had patience, as I knew that painting would become a key part of my life.

When I was in the 4th grade, I started saying that I wanted to become an architect. I am not entirely sure what spurred the idea. However, every day I am more and more surprised at just how good I am at being an Architect and shocked at how successful I am becoming. Architecture utilizes me in a way that nothing else can, and it is a careful tightrope of opportunities that I have navigated and continue to navigate. I have always wanted to be viewed solely for my skills and ideas as an architect, without influence from outside sources or connections.

Thus, I have always kept my art private. I also do not tell very many people in my personal life that I paint. In fact, unless a friend or family member has come into my home, it is unlikely that they would know that I paint. That will all change soon, as this year I have become compelled to begin sharing my work.

The thing about my paintings that makes it difficult to share them is that they mean so much to me. When I look at them, I feel like I am looking into a mirror. They make me feel calm and like myself. Additionally, due to each one having years of layer after layer of oil and paint on them, it would be difficult to rationally sell them for a reasonable amount of money. By that I mean the shear amount of hundreds of hours I spend on each one, they would need to sell for significant amounts of money.

I have never quite known how I might share my work, until I within the last year decided that I would begin to sell prints on Giclee and Canvases.

I plan to tell my story about each work and other information about how I work through a series of short narratives, like this one.

All the best,

Thie

My most recent work. I am calling it prism.