Thomas Sauter

In his textured paintings, Thomas Sauter employs a variety of media in reference to the vocabulary of visual abstraction. Sauter uses negative space to define both his paintings and sculptural compositions. In doing so, he calls into question painterly gestures and the artist's dominance over the canvas. Sauter challenges painting's traditional context on the canvas by applying abstract, horizontal strokes directly to objects, such as tools, car rims, and human body parts. With its unique relationship with gesture and space, Sauter’s paintings draw ambiguous parallels between gesture and form, abstraction and object, which submerge the viewer in the work.

Sauter's work has been exhibited at solo exhibitions at Galerie Maria Bernheim and Karma International, both in Zürich, Switzerland, Johan Berggren Gallery in Malmö, Sweden, and New Jerseyy in Basel, Switzerland. Additionally, he has contributed work to group shows at galleries such as Raperswil in Switzerland, MAXXI in Rome, Toves in Copenhagen, Plymouth Rock in Zürich, Marfa in Marfa, Texas, and KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin.