
Spotlight Artist
Elise Thompson
South
Artist Statement
My objects consist of dichotomies. Translucent textiles over
wooden frames offer a delicate surface with an assertive support.
Paint application is nuanced in some areas and clumsy in others,
shifting back and forth between ethereal stains, loud color, and
material textures. Shapes shift between the organic and the
geometric, the nonrepresentational and the slightly familiar.
Similar gestures take form in three-dimensional works that lean
against walls or stand lightly on their own. Plywood, covered or
left bare, is cut to evoke the abstract paintings, but also furniture
and figures. There are moments that call on something specific
while avoiding it at the same time, revealing hidden, partial
secrets in crevices and behind layers when the viewer explores
what is concealed.
Artist's Additional works
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