“The principle of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.” - Jerzy Kosinski
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Thomas Van Housen is a self-taught artist whose work incorporates freehand painting, serigraphy, laser toner transfers, and inkjet on canvas prints, using both abstraction and computer-designed graphic elements. His images stem from pop culture, the sciences, personal inspiration, and subjects commissioned by clients. Van Housen is frequently commissioned to create works from photographs.
After a career as an actuary and executive search consultant, Van Housen left corporate culture in 1990 to concentrate on painting and computer consulting to families and small businesses. He sold 41 paintings to the RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company in 1996. The series, which toured the country for a year, was based on the Moonlight Tobacco Company logo and numerous cigarette pack designs. In 1997 he was selected by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to create a series of paintings on the Hale-Bopp Comet for the departing Chairman of the Grants Committee. For many years Van Housen’s paintings were featured at Gordon, the famed Chicago restaurant, where he sold over 60 works of art to numerous prominent Chicagoans and travelers from around the world. Included among his patrons is a former Chairman of the Board of the Museum of Contemporary Art. Over three decades, Van Housen has created and sold over 1,600 paintings.
Van Housen graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1977 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics, with emphasis in Actuarial Science and Accounting.
400 Cross Cherry Bomb, 2023
Aero Gloss Dope #4, 2023
Aquezio, 2023
Asbestos Man #1, 2023
Audrey Hepburn, 2023
Audrey Hepburn (Blue with Red Stripe), 2023
Bad Things Come In Threes (Again), 2023
Baker's Transformation, 2023
Barbie Tony Lama, 2023
be bop session, 2023
Bear With Me, 2023
Big-Endian, 2023
Billy, 2023
Caporal Shebot, 2023
Carrington, 2023
Caterwaul, 2023
Chicken King Red Lion Śīrṣāsana, 2023
Choose Any Two, 2023
Congregant, 2023
Cream of Warhola, 2023
Creek Chub Lucky Strike, 2023
Dr. No #2, 2023
Drawing Artist, 2023
Drink Ticket, 2023
Droplet with Mantra, 2023
Drugs From Cosmo, 2023
Dukkha, 2023
Envoy, 2023
Ethos, 2023
Experimental Car, 2023
Fast Forward, 2023
Figmentation #42, 2023
Figmentation #48, 2023
Figmentation #49, 2023
Figmentation #50, 2023
Figmentation #55, 2023
Figmentation #56, 2023
Force Field, 2023
Framework, 2023
Functional Form, 2023
Gadget With Tools Bar, 2023
Genuine Wooden, 2023
Giant Monsters, 2023
Glyph, 2023
Good Boy, 2023
Good Water Marilyn, 2023
Gort In Meditation, 2023
Guggenheim Museum, 2023
Guild Navigator Atlas, 2023
Halt and Catch Fire, 2023
Hat Trick, 2023
Hexagram 11, 2023
Honor System, 2023
Image Download Placeholder Icon, 2023
Iteration, 2023
Joan Blondell, 2023
Karesansui Portal, 2023
Kobara, 2023
Lakehurst, 2023
Mona Giza, 2023
Morphogenesis #2, 2023
Old Joe With Ho'oponopono Prayer, 2023
One Hand Clapping, 2023
Origination, 2023
Pareidoliac #2, 2023
Periodicities, 2023
Positronic Projection, 2023
Prithvi Mudra, 2023
Pseudorandom Inboard Man, 2023
Recursion, 2023
riverrun, 2023
SA57BMW307R, 2023
Samba, 2023
Sealtest, 2023
Silver Surfer Gravity Assist, 2023
Sorry Dorothy, 2023
Stickey Mickey, 2023
Swept Clean, 2023
Synonymous, 2023
Taking The Log, 2023
The Curse of Dimensionality, 2023
The Measure Problem, 2023
The Nimzo, 2023
The Set Of All Charts Is An Atlas, 2023
Thrush Moon, 2023
Tori With Herald, 2023
Transient Wave, 2023
Thundersnow II, 2023
Toynbee Idea, 2023
Transformer Model Architecture, 2023
Twenty-Four, 2023
Upside Down Martini, 2023
Vertiport, 2023
Visual Approach #3, 2023
Wait What Shebot, 2023
Wetware, 2023
Wittgenstein, 2023
1965 BCE, 2022
Amargosa, 2022
Analytic Continuation, 2022
Array, 2022
Asphaltene Dream, 2022
Audrey Hepburn, 2022
Audrey Hepburn, 2022
Bardot, 2022
Bit Rot, 2022
Bleu Villa, 2022
Bodhicitta, 2022
Botanica, 2022
Breezewood, 2022
Buddhabadra, 2022
Buddhatā, 2022
Buffer, 2022
Capsaicin, 2022
Chaotic Figmentation, 2022
Concoction, 2022
Conservatory, 2022
Conservatory #2, 2022
Coulomb Drag, 2022
Crosstalk, 2022
Dharmachakra, 2022
Dismantle The Sun, 2022
DMZ, 2022
Dr. No, 2022
Encirclement, 2022
Entanglement, 2022
Entertainment, 2022
Exacta, 2022
Fact Is, 2022
Fair Thee Well, 2022
Farmers, 2022
Fatherwell, 2022
Fathom, 2022
Fembot, 2022
Figmentation #1, 2022
Figmentation #16, 2022
Figmentation #18, 2022
Figmentation #19, 2022
Figmentation #20, 2022
Figmentation #24, 2022
Figmentation #25, 2022
Figmentation #26, 2022
Figmentation #27, 2022
Figmentation #28, 2022
Figmentation #29, 2022
Figmentation #30, 2022
Figmentation #31, 2022
Figmentation #32, 2022
Figmentation #33, 2022
Figmentation #35, 2022
Forecast, 2022
Forward Error, 2022
Fugu, 2022
Fun Fact, 2022
Fungible Token, 2022
Gateless Gate, 2022
Gist, 2022
Glimpse, 2022
Gravity Portal, 2022
Gravity Well, 2022
Hi Ho Repsol, 2022
Hollywood & Twine, 2022
Hybrid #1, 2022
Hybrid #2, 2022
Hybrid #3, 2022
Hybrid #4, 2022
Hybrid #5, 2022
Hybrid #6, 2022
Hybrid #7, 2022
Ice Eleven, 2022
Ilk Of Cartesia, 2022
Karesansui, 2022
Kush, 2022
Langlands Conjecture, 2022
Least Zen Moon, 2022
Life in APL, 2022
Mansplainers, 2022
Marshall Amplification, 2022
Metempsychosis (Past Lives Matter), 2022
Monet Oil Painting, 2022
Move Along, 2022
Namespaces, 2022
Namib, 2022
On Any Sunday, 2022
Orange Crush, 2022
Pegasus Membrane, 2022
Perturbed Domain, 2022
Point Being, 2022
Saffron, 2022
Sangha, 2022
Scraper #88, 2022
Scraper #89, 2022
Scraper #90, 2022
Scraper #91, 2022
Scraper #92, 2022
Scraper #95, 2022
Scraper #98, 2022
Shōbōgenzō, 2022
Shoshin, 2022
Since When, 2022
Sinclair Pegasus Computational Complexity, 2022
Sophon, 2022
Sotāpanna, 2022
Surface Tension, 2022
Surf City/Hexagram 11, 2022
Suspect Device #2, 2022
Symbiote, 2022
Thanks For Playing, 2022
That Happened, 2022
That There, 2022
The Battle Of Los Angeles, 2022
The Halting Problem, 2022
There's That, 2022
This Fleeting World (Parasamgate), 2022
Two-Holed Torus, 2022
Uji, 2022
Ultra-Deep Field, 2022
Vacuum State, 2022
Visual Approach #1, 2022
Visual Approach #2, 2022
von Neumann Universal Constructor, 2022
Wu Tang Clone, 2022
4-Rs, 2021
Acronical Rising, 2021
Alcyonacea, 2021
Alizarine, 2021
Betel, 2021
Biome, 2021
Blackwood, 2021
Boardwalk, 2021
Bodhidharma, 2021
Boundary Condition, 2021
Buddhakṣetra, 2021
Burma, 2021
Catherine Deneuve, 2021
Chicago Flag, 2021
Choate, 2021
Chord, 2021
Comstock, 2021
Corsairs, 2021
Cracked Crag, 2021
Dark Matter, 2021
Debris Disk, 2021
Dōgen, 2021
Dopant, 2021
Dune, 2021
Ejecta, 2021
Exuviae, 2021
Far Star, 2021
Fell Swoop, 2021
Full Circle, 2021
Gadget, 2021
Giant Balls, 2021
Ginkgo, 2021
Haoma, 2021
Hiroko Ai, 2021
Houdini, 2021
Hyperion, 2021
If-Then, 2021
Isipatana, 2021
Joshu's Courtyard, 2021
Kilauea, 2021
Kuge (The Flower of Emptiness), 2021
Landscape With Suspect Devices, 2021
LUCA, 2021
Maya, 2021
Michi gami, 2021
Mitosis, 2021
Moons, 2021
Morphogenesis, 2021
Nemaha, 2021
Paramita, 2021
P-Chem, 2021
Point Taken, 2021
Root, 2021
Ryōan-ji, 2021
Samāpatti, 2021
Scraper #80, 2021
Scraper #81, 2021
Scraper #82, 2021
Scraper #83, 2021
Scraper #102, 2021
Squonk, 2021
Struttura, 2021
Sum-Over-Histories, 2021; Dark Forest and Kiku, 2022;
Tethys, 2021
Them Thar Hills, 2021
Three-Body Problem, 2021
Vacuum Bubble, 2021
Vestige, 2021
Walkabout, 2021
"Woo-hoo, 2021
2-3 Jet Chip Wasp, 2020
Audrey Hepburn, 2020
Captain America Leica, 2020
Congruence #1, 2020
Congruence #2, 2020
Dirty Martini #1, 2020
Dogma, 2020
Headwaters, 2020
Iridium K-T, 2020
John Brown Over Pink, 2020
MM Beachcomber, 2020
Nimbus, 2020
Oppenheimer at Trinity Tower with Ho'oponopono Mantra, 2020
Pirate Flag, 2020
Search Pattern With Grid, 2020
Vacuum Synergy, 2020
Voyager, 2020
A Question Of When, 2019
Abatement, 2019
Abrade, 2019
Adapted Work Surface, 2019
Akumal, 2019
Albedo and Albedo with 400 Cross, 2019
Alms, 2019
Alms Collector, 2019
Alph, 2019
American Roulette, 2019
Anthropocène, 2019
Arun, 2019
Arrakis, 2019
Augury, 2019
Autopoiesis, 2019
Azotobacter, 2019
Back Forty, 2019
Ball Lightning, 2019
Bardo, 2019
BBH, 2019
Beal Slough, 2019
Black Flag, 2019
Bodhi Tree, 2019
Bose-Einstein Condensate, 2019
Broken Symmetry, 2019
Cadmium Falls, 2019
Cantor's Paradise, 2019
Carrington Event, 2019
Catalyst, 2019
Chandelier, 2019
Charge-Coupled Device and Gravity Assist, 2019
Chicxulub #1, 2019
Chicxulub #2, 2019
Coccus, 2019
Collaborators Of Home Depot, 2019
Compared To What, 2019
Conditioned Existence, 2019
Conformal Mapping, 2019
Conway's Law, 2019
Cosmo's Phactory, 2019
Crypto-Stego, 2019
Curacao, 2019
Decoherence, 2019
Deformation, 2019
Denizen, 2019
Dew Point, 2019
Diatom, 2019
Dirty Martini #2, 2019
Drip Dry, 2019
EcoTechno, 2019
Frame-Drag #1 and Frame-Drag #2, 2019
Frame-Drag #3 , 2019
Free Estimate, 2019
Galactic Hero With Experimental Car And Feynman's Last Blackboard, 2019
GREP, 2019
Hastings, 2019
Herculaneum, 2019
Hot Standby, 2019
Iron-60, 2019
Itô's Lemma, 2019
Jilamara, 2019
Joint and Several, 2019
K-T, 2019
Kanab, 2019
Kata Tjuṯa, 2019
Kerala, 2019
La Tomatina, 2019
Lake Effect, 2019
Liffy, 2019
Mahadeva and Laminar Flow, 2019
Milk of Cartesia, 2019
Multiverse A+B, 2019
Myelin, 2019
Namespace, 2019
New Haven (Blue), 2019
Niobrara, 2019
Nova, 2019
Ogallala, 2019
P logP, 2019
Pale Blue Dot, 2019
Paragate, 2019
Parasamgate and Svadhisthana, 2019
Percival, 2019
Pergola 1 and Pergola 2, 2019
Physarum (Black), 2019
Planetoids Over Wilderness, 2019
Portal, 2019
Praṇāma, 2019
Red Cloud, 2019
Reverse Osmosis, 2019
Rhizome, 2019
Sahasrara, 2019
Sān Tǐ Shì, 2019
Scraper #54, 2019
Scraper #57, 2019
Scraper #59, 2019
Scraper #60, 2019
Scraper #62, 2019
Scraper #63, 2019
Scraper #67, 2019
Seek Whence, 2019
Shift+7, 2019
Shōgun, 2019
Sinusoid on Playa, 2019
Songbird, 2019
Squall, 2019
Squall #2, 2019
Strange Loop, 2019
sys.brain.lib, 2019
Tahoser, 2019
Thermocline, 2019
This Fleeting World (Viscosity 10), 2019
Thundersnow, 2019
Time Band, 2019
Tornadoes, 2019
Trading Range, 2019
Trim Tabs, 2019
Vacuum Energy, 2019
Vacuum Dark Energy, 2019
Veridorado, 2019
Vishuddha, 2019
Waubonsie, 2019
Williwaw, 2019
Blockchain, 2018
Bommie, 2018
Change Of Coordinates, 2018
John Brown Twice, 2018
Just Married (Physics Of A Vibrating Membrane), 2018
New Haven, 2018
Scraper #41, 2018
Scraper #43, 2018
Scraper #45, 2018
Scraper #48, 2018
Solo In The Spotlight, 2018
Sukhavati, 2018
This Fleeting World (A Bubble In A Stream), 2018
This Fleeting World (Asteroids), 2018
This Fleeting World (Chicago), 2018
This Fleeting World (Harita Kalpa), 2018
This Fleeting World (Indra's Net), 2018
This Fleeting World (Parasamgate), 2018
Aida, 2017 and Galois Field, 2018
Untitled #1125, 2018
Woodstock, 2018
Audrey Hepburn, 2017
Brushless Marilyn, 2017
Build Me A Drink, 2017
First Snow (Sugarplums), 2017
Marilyn Monroe (Bell Correlation In Squeezed Spin State), 2017
Penumbra, 2017 and Math Anxiety, 1998
Planet Nine, 2017 and Math Anxiety, 1998
Scraper #1, 2017
Scraper #2, 2017
Scraper #12, 2017
Scraper #20, 2017
Scraper #34, 2017
Seated Taupe Bhagavan With Ho'oponopono Mantra, 2017
Six Ghosted Jeeps, 2017
This Fleeting World (Coral Reef), 2017
This Fleeting World (Eukaryotes), 2017
This Fleeting World (Flora), 2017
This World, 2017
Work Surface, 2017
Cutting Daisies, 2012
Mandelbrot, 2010
Pixel Coke With Ethernet, 2010
Fig 1., 2009
Audrey Hepburn, 2007
Roberto Clemente, 2007
Solo in the Spotlight, 2007
Pensive Barbie, 2006
Audrey Hepburn, 2002
Imagine, 2002
Nonpredispossessed, 2002
Bardot TV, 2001
Bardot TV, 2001
Bardot TV, 2001
Bardot TV, 2001
Jeep with Cow Sky, 2001
QRPFF, 2001
Six Audrey Hepburns, 2001
Abstracts, 2000
Audrey Hepburn, 2000
Girl, 2000
Honus Wagner, 2000
John Brown, 2000
Lone Ranger, 2000
Martinis No. 788, 2000
Martini (Yellow), 2000
A Bubble in a Stream, 1999
Audrey Hepburn, 1999
Audrey Hepburn, 1999
Audrey Hepburn, 1999
Audrey Hepburn, 1999
Audrey Hepburn, 1999
Audrey Hepburn, 1999
Audrey Hepburn, 1999
Barbie, 1999
Barbie, 1999
Barbie, 1999
Barbie (Solo In The Laserbeam), 1999
Catches Fish Like Crazy #694 and Catches Fish Like Crazy #675, 1999
Grace Kelly, 1999
Guggenheim, 1999
James Joyce, 1999
Jesus Is Coming, Look Busy, 1999
Martini No. 656, 1999
Toastmasters, 1999
With Little Effort, 1999
Audrey Hepburn, 1998
Audrey Hepburn, 1998
Benoit Mandelbrot, 1998
Camel, 1998
Captains America, 1998
config.sys, 1998
Crop Circle, 1998
James Joyce (Death Mask), 1998
Kurt Gödel, 1998
Lucian Freud, 1998
Martini, 1998
Physics Of A Vibrating Membrane, 1998
Printer Driver, 1998
Solo In The Spotlight, 1998
Supersport, 1998
Viagra Flag With Willys, 1998
3.0 M Pig, 1997
Martini No. 340, 1997
Pig in Ram, 1997
Stamped MM, 1997
Welder, 1997
William S. Burroughs, 1997
Aero Gloss Dope, 1996
Barbie, 1996
Bubbles, 1996
Untitled (Captain America), 1996
With Little Effort, 1996
Bees, 1995
Jumbos, 1995
Marilyn Monroe, 1995
Audrey Hepburn, 1994
Audrey Hepburn, 1994
Bardot, 1994
Bardot, 1994
Bardot, 1994
Free Corn, 1994
Jackie O., 1994
Math Anxiety, 1994
Membrane, 1994
Ray Charles, 1994
Stevie Wonder, 1994
Army Wonder Car, 1993
Army Wonder Car With Hexagram 11 and Bardot, 1993
Bardot, 1993
Bardot, 1993
Camel, 1993
Concept Cars, 1993
Experimental Car, 1993
Experimental Car With Marilyn, 1993
Galactic Hero, 1993
Jesus Smoking, 1993
Bad Things Come In Threes, 1992
Hexagram 11, 1992
Solo In The Spotlight, 1992
Catastrophy, 1991
Audrey Hepburn With Jeep