EXTENDED TO JUNE 2024
About
I had so many reoccurring dreams about oval shapes, figures, and gestures floating in space. My immediate response was to document that experience on the canvas. The Alien Conversations series is a dialogue between shapes and gestures in an orbital context.
—Terry Thompson
ThompsonStreet.com is pleased to present an online virtual exhibition of paintings and works on paper by American artist Terry Thompson.
Thompson produced a wide range of innovative works over the years. The present exhibition focuses on the artist’s output of his pivotal work of exploratory ventures in cosmic space. The series is a transformation of gestures and shapes with various applications of color that reach new territory in his vocabulary. These large works encompass a wide range of narratives that transcend the boundaries of figurative-surrealism and post-modern abstraction compositions.
In 2014, Thompson’s began sketching his dreamscape in mystical esoteric arrangement of episodes sparked through delightful vista. The Alien Conversation #7, painting reveals the authorial gestures of dimension that explore the unlimited demand for sense. It is a signature Thompson work—-full of bold and bright colors, that embraces beauty on and off the canvas.
Thompson’s complex relationships between dance culture, fashion, beauty and subconscious voyages, challenges contemporary thinking of rhythms, color and semblance. His works embraces the notion of improvisational studio practices with historical inspiration resulting in compositions that oscillate between abstract and gestural forms.
In 2019, Thompson’s exhibition at YART Gallery focused on the monochromatic version of the Alien Conversations series which he called the Bianco e Nero works. The scope of the black and white palette with interstellar arrangements and aerobic gestures is inspired by the 2016 painting Alien Conversation #13. Thompson departed from his signature style of bright and bold color tonal palette to create a encrypted layer of monochromatic three-dimensional renderings of orbital journey.