Thomas Boutis (1922 – 2018) was an American artist, known as an abstract expressionist with a love of color.
Tom Boutis was born in 1922 in New York City to parents from Kastoria, Greece.
[7] His first solo art show was in January 1955 at Zabriskie Gallery in New York City.
[4][8] In the 1950s, with artists from the E 10th Street co-op movement, he established the Area Gallery in New York City which was in operation from 1958 until 1965.
[5] The original members of Area Gallery were Tom Boutis, alongside artists John Ireland Collins, Charles Steven DuBack, Joe Fiore, Bernard Langlais, Ed Moses, Daphne Mumford, and Paul Yakovenko.