Terry Thompson Art Exhibition "Trilogy" at CUP Gallery Washington DC

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About the Venue

The CUP Gallery is a new contemporary art gallery which is located in the popular H Street area of Washington DC.

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About the Exhibition

Trilogy, is an mini survey exhibition of three recent output created by the artist that are connected by shapes, colors, rhythms and brush strokes.

Alien Conversations

Thompson produced a wide range of innovative works over the years. The Alien Conversations series focuses on the artist’s output of his pivotal work 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.

Muse

This series draws on Thompson’s playful experimentation of human form blended with his signature backdrop motifs. The works are influenced by photos and fashion videos shared by models, actress, and designers on Instagram during the pandemic. The social media platform replaces Thompson’s long studio practices of mining for images and inspiration in fashion magazines.

Futurismo

This series explores the use of technology to stretch the boundaries of movement, colors, and shapes in space. the works are influenced by the Italian Futurismo movement in a non-political manner. Thompson creates his own vocabulary of dreamscapes with shapes, feelings, and sensation that links to the orbital mode of the Alien Conversations series.

Terry Thompson

Terry Thompson is an American artist, born in Chicago. He currently lives and work in Baltimore, Maryland. 

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.

He spent most of his studio practice over the last 10 years, creating large-scale paintings of spontaneous gestures on linen canvas with a diverse applications of color that stretches the limits between impulse and recurring motifs. He established and assembled a wide range of narratives through his diverse practices that transcends the boundaries of figurative surrealism and post-modern abstraction traditions. His exploratory inventive process of collage making, painting and drawing speaks to a modern vocabulary.

He was selected artist-in-residence from 1999-2004 at School 33 Art Center in Baltimore. Thompson participated in various exhibitions including: ATM at the Former Robert Miller Gallery (2018) New York, Post Cards from the Edge at Gallery 524 (2018) New York,  The ArtBox Project 1.0, Basel, Switzerland (2017), Post Cards from the Edge, Metro Pictures (2017) New York, Art Takes Miami at Scope (2014), Scope, Miami (2012), Sub-Basement Art Gallery (2004, 2008), Galerie Francoise (2012), Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy (1998). He holds a Masters of Science in Administration from Central Michigan University. This multi-talented artist is a well-known DJ/Producer with releases on the London, UK record label Defected.

“This pandemic is crazy, however I took advantage of this moment to create bodies of work that hopefully will speak to future audiences ——adversity can’t stop creativity”

—Terry Thompson

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

1010 Florida Ave NE, 1010 Florida Avenue Northeast, Washington, United States