Thomas Bils

Born and raised in central Florida, Thomas Bils paints from an autobiographical analysis in how his present moments are predicated in experiences growing up in the suburban south at the rise of the opioid crisis. Reflecting on the absurdities encountered, he manages a visual language endowed with the significance of an ambiguated personal lore and hidden meanings, carefully blurring the borders between truth and fiction. In these slippages of recollection, he incurs his role as the unreliable narrator posturing false investigations to coax the viewer in seeking a contextual alibi within their own praxis. These works are intended to serve as a distorting reflection to the viewer, priming their own experiences for signification and to serve as the vehicle for a communion of shared emotion.”