Walter Thompson
dal 29/10/2002 al 23/11/2002
Segnalato da
29/10/2002
Walter Thompson
Amos Eno Gallery, New York
The works to be exhibited are the most recent development of an art process that began more than three decades ago. For years Thompson worked in an abstract manner that combined hard-edged, geometric forms painted in flat unmodulated colors.
Over Under Series
Opening Reception: October 30 from 6-8 PM
This exhibition of paintings by Walter E. Thompson will be on view at the Amos Eno Gallery from October 30 to November 23, 2002. A reception for the artist will take place on October 30th from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM.
The works to be exhibited are the most recent development of an art process that began more than three decades ago. For years Thompson worked in an abstract manner that combined hard-edged, geometric forms painted in flat unmodulated colors. In the search for greater perceptual richness, his work tended toward more and more complex configurations, always bounded by clear, straight edges.
The new work on exhibition here turns to a method that at first seems to belie the original intent. In the last five or six years the geometric compositions have been simplified and then transformed by multiple overlays of color that partially bury the geometric image in to the space of the canvas. These randomly built up veils or curtains of color break up the underlying image to create a space that is complex and ambiguous. The gestural over-painting and the geometric under-painting act on one another to the mutual benefit of both, making what in effect is a third image that neither one by itself could achieve.
The ambiguity contained in these images is their strength. The viewer is urged to look deeply into the skeins of color in search of forms buried within and shifting relationships on the surface. The artist has said that he is trying to return us to something like the raw data of vision before it is assimilated. It is a way of making the organizing of what we see into a more conscious process.
Walter Thompson has lived in New York for nineteen years. He has taught art and art history at universities in the Mid-West and the South. In New York, He has written art reviews, many for Art in America (1987-1993) and a book on Paul Cézanne.
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Wednesday - Saturday
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Amos Eno Gallery
59 Franklin Street
New York, NY 10013
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