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Carl Thoma is an art collector, philanthropist and entrepreneur. He is co-founder and president of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation and founder and managing partner of Thoma Bravo.
Leo Villareal’s Big Bang was one of the first pieces that drew me into media art. I was interested in how he used elements and operations like pixels, binary code, addition, and subtraction to develop complex, custom generative software with chance and variation as core components.
Carl Thoma, Thoma Foundation on Collecting, Curiosity and Conversation
My interest in collecting is rooted in curiosity. Early on, I was drawn to works that captured a strong sense of place and atmosphere. The Taos Society artists and California Impressionists reflected a vision of landscape that resonated with me personally, being from rural Oklahoma.
Carl Thoma, Thoma Foundation on Collecting, Curiosity and Conversation