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Thomas Moberg

@thomasjmoberg

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Painter and jewelry metalsmith based in Lansing MI

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Milkweed No. 9
Oil on linen panel
12” x 12”

This was painted on site at Drummond Island during my summer residency with the @saultartcenter in Sault Ste Marie MI, where I spent two weeks painting along the shores of Lake Huron and exploring the upper peninsula.

This painting is currently on display at the @cvawausau as part of my solo show “Searching for the Sacred”. The exhibition will be up for another two weeks and will conclude with a gallery talk at 2pm on Saturday, March 14th, so if you’re in central Wisconsin please come by to see the show and say hi! by @thomasjmoberg

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I’m humbled to receive the Grand Prize from the inaugural @paintthetownottawa plein air competition in Ottawa, IL! This painting of the rail bridge over the Illinois River was completed over a single 10 hour session. Huge thanks go out to the trio of fishermen who gave me two bottles of water when it was clear that I was struggling under the heat.

Making Space
Oil on linen panel
18” x 24” taken in Ottawa, Illinois by @thomasjmoberg

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I cannot express how grateful I am to have received Best of Show for my nocturne “Working Late” at this year’s Paint Livingston plein air competition! I’m always on the lookout for subjects that challenge my expectations, and it’s so gratifying when a big swing like this one connects. I had gotten the idea to compose these cement silos and form an oil sketch in the early morning, which allowed me to focus on color and tonal relationships when I returned later that night. Huge thanks to all of the folks at @overtoncountyarts and to the juror @shelbylkeefe. These last two events have surpassed my expectations, I’m really looking forward to what next year will bring!

Paintings in order of appearance:
“Working Late”, oil, 12x24
“The Arc”, oil pastel, 8x10
“Cows!”, oil pastel, 6x12
“Willow Grove”, oil, 6x6
“Cove Creek”, oil, 10x10 by @thomasjmoberg

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Our third annual Paint Livingston Plein Air competition was the best ever! Thank you to this year's incredible artists and judge Shelby Keefe, our phenomenal volunteers, our OCAC sponsors, patrons, and members, and all our supportive collectors and art-curious visitors!
Our Paint Livingston 2026 award winners are listed below. More photos to come!
MAIN COMPETITION
BEST OF SHOW: Thomas Moberg for “Working Late”
Artists’ Choice Award for Best Body of Work: Mitchell Breitweiser
The First National Bank First Place Award: Olga Bankston for “Light at Waterloo Falls”
Second Place: Katie-Dobson Cundiff for “Hilltop View”
Third Place: Brigitte Hubbard for “Top of the Mountain”
Honorable Mention: Jacob Carroll for “Midnight on Main”
QUICK PAINT - Featured Artist Division
First National Bank First Place Award: Katie Dobson-Cundiff for “Rust and Remnants”
Second Place: Mitchell Breitweiser for “Old Timer”
Third Place: Rajendra KC for “Downtown Misty Day”
Honorable Mention: John Caggiano for “By the Alley”
QUICK PAINT - Open Division
First National Bank First Place Award: Julie Quick for “Left on 52”
Second Place: Lamar Gilstrap for “Brass on the Square”
Third Place: Kenan Wilson for “In the Fountain”
Honorable Mention: Bethany Stahl for “Rainy Day in Livingston” taken in Livingston, Tennessee by @thomasjmoberg

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13 days ago

Photos from the opening reception of Let’s Meet in Our Dreams @artlinkfw 💙💜💚

Thank you to everyone who made it out for the night and celebrated our engagement 💍🥂

Thank you especially to @possiblyashba and @ellenmensch for the 📸📷

@thomasjmoberg see you forever in our dreams 😘 taken in Artlink by @thomasjmoberg

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2 months ago

Only two days away from the opening of these three incredible exhibitions! Come celebrate Let’s Meet in Our Dreams by Thomas Moberg & Jamie Weinfurter, and juried exhibitions Lucent & Mirroring Reality from 5-8PM this Thursday, July 30!

Thomas & Jamie will be there, as well as many other local artists featured in Lucent & Mirroring Reality!

Admission is free, everyone is welcome, and we’ll have a cash bar and some snacks waiting for you. See you Thursday!

#artlinkfw #fortwayne #artscampusfw #artexhibition #event taken in Artlink by @thomasjmoberg

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3 months ago

Come out to Artlink from 5-8PM this Thursday to celebrate the opening of Let’s Meet In Our Dreams by Jamie Weinfurter & Thomas Moberg, as well as juried exhibitions Lucent and Mirroring Reality!

It’s absolutely free to attend, all are welcome, and we’ll have some snacks and a cash bar!

See you then ✨ taken in Artlink by @thomasjmoberg

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𝐿𝑒𝓉’𝓈 𝑀𝑒𝑒𝓉 𝒾𝓃 𝒪𝓊𝓇 𝒟𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓂𝓈
A two-person exhibition by Jamie Weinfurter and Thomas Moberg
July 30 - August 23, 2026

Opening reception @artlinkfw in Fort Wayne, IN, from 5-8 pm on Thursday, July 30th! Join Thomas and I in celebrating our first exhibition together since our senior undergraduate exhibition at UWSP 🔥🫶🏻🎉

“Let’s Meet in Our Dreams is a two-person exhibition by Thomas Moberg and Jamie Weinfurter, featuring nocturne paintings and shadowed sculpture collages within a light-controlled space. The tension between exterior and interior space and the parallels of darkness and light are meant to draw in viewers like “moths to the flame,” highlighting our shared desire to feel at home.”

DM us for physical show cards, and we hope to see y’all there 💖

#letsmeetinourdreams #pleinairpainting #scollage #artlinkcontemporarygallery #twopersonexhibition taken in Artlink by @thomasjmoberg

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Another peek at the creation of Thomas Moberg's (@thomasjmoberg) Milkweed Mural for @washtenawcountyparks Commission. The panels were painted over the month of April, 2026, at the @lansingmakers network by Thomas and friends, Bella Fortunato (@belljar2019) and Nicole Octavia Vogt (@nox_painting), and technical support from Andy Drier. @michigan_imagery custom-cut each panel and, once the painting was completed, installed them at the Mari Lou Recreation Center's indoor pool before the pool reopened in June of 2026.

A2AC Murals is made possible by the Lucie and Larry Nisson Art in Public program. by @thomasjmoberg

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4 months ago

My first plein air painting of the whole season, and a demo for outside the crooked tree arts center during @paintgrandtraverse. The demo was limited to a tight radius around the arts center, so I tried to get creative to find the right composition, maximizing the distance with a broad leaf tree in the foreground and a storefront and stop sign in the distance.

It was a lot of fun to share my process with everyone, and it’s not every day you get such ideal conditions to paint under. The weather was perfect, I was painting in the shade, the audience was lovely and attentive, and Mick even brought over a table so I’d have better access to my box of oil pastels!

A Lesson in Shade
Oil pastel, 5” x 20” by @thomasjmoberg

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Just wrapped up my fourth year with @paintgrandtraverse ! Each year I push myself to try something new, and this year my goal was to focus on extremely narrow compositions, ranging from 1:2 (12” x 24”) to 1:6 (4” x 24”). These narrow formats opened up a new world of possibilities for finding compositions, really allowing me to experiment with scale and perspective.

Before the competition each year, I go out to @michigan.barnwood to get inspired by what they have in stock so that I can make a unique set of frames for the event. This year I fell absolutely in love with a few cuts of spalted maple, which has multicolored patterns, dark lines, and bleaching from different fungal growths that take over tree after it dies. I cut the maple into boards and sandwiched them with 1/8” slices of Padauk to create an even, dark red border for the face of the frames. The frames were then assembled and splined at the corners with brass to incorporate an element of flash. The brass was a real puzzle to figure out, but I’ve wanted to incorporate metals into my frames for a while now as a way to bring in some of my craft as a jeweler.

I can’t thank @crookedtreetraversecity enough for the work they put into this event every year. I’ve grown tremendously as a painter because of PGT and the support they’ve shown me. I also want to shout out my home hosts John and Lesa Seefeld, who have put me up for the past two years, fed me the greatest leftovers in the world, and reminisced with me about our shared cultural connection with Central Wisconsin. Finally, love for my dear friends @andrea4884 and @danielvener for making the drive out to TC to celebrate the weekend with me! by @thomasjmoberg

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