DINNER PARTY FOR EIGHT, PREPARED BY THOMAS BILS AND SERVED BY CATHY LEFF

Enjoy dinner for eight prepared by Bakehouse artist and former chef and butcher Thomas Bils. Dinner will be served by Bakehouse Executive Director Cathy Leff in her Venetian Way apartment, overlooking Biscayne Bay. Your donation will support our artist studio fund.

About the Artist

Thomas Bils was born and raised in central Florida before moving south to his current residence of Miami. Thomas Bils paints autobiographically in ongoing investigation into the precarious nature of the world and the banality of disaster. Reflecting from the absurdities he was accustomed to while growing up in the suburban south during the beginning of the opioid crisis, Thomas crafts images employing his role as the unreliable narrator to develop a fragmented reality where personal narratives intertwine with universal anxieties. Within that space the viewer is invited to meditate on the inherent contradictions that define our human experience and the fragility of certainty. The personal microcosm, in Bils's vision, is a delicate construct, forever on the precipice of collapse, where even the most mundane occurrences can hold profound existential significance.