Tony Thompson

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Traditional Landscapes

Abandoned Bridge, 2002	Apple Blossoms, Germantown, 2008	Ice and Yellow Sky, 2008
Middle Island, Autumn, 2007	Peter's View, 2007	Hudson at Stockport, 2007
Ice At Sunset, 2007	Cohoes Falls	Sun On Ice, 2007
Hidden Sun #1, 2005	Olana, the House, 2003	Pocomo Rocks, Overcast, 2002

Double Landscapes

Chinoiserie, 2006	Columbia, 2011	Crary Snow, 2011
F. H. Lane, 2007	Hidden Sun, 2006	Hillsdale, 2005
Kensett I, 2007	Kensett II , 2007	Nantucket Bog, 2003
Schodack, 2002	Inness, 2007	Noon
Dusk and Dawn, 2006	Coatue, 2004	Knot, 2004
Cranberry, 2004	Pond, 2007	Tapestry II, 2004

Textile Drawings

D 1 15 09, 2009	D 1 27 09, 2009	D 1 28 09, 2009
D 1 29 09, 2009	D 1 5 09 1, 2009	D 1 5 09 2, 2009
D 1 6 09, 2009	D 2 1 09, 2009 Sold	D 2 17 09, 2009
D 2 5 09, 2009	D 2 6 09, 2009	D 3 23 09, 2009
D 3 23 09 2, 2009	D 3 6 09, 2009	D 4 14 09, 2009
D 4 18 09, 2009	D 4 19 09, 2009	D 4 7 09, 2009
D 4 7 09 2 , 2009

Alfombras Multiusos

acrylic poured paint and rug remnants

Alfombra Multiuso I, 2009	Alfombra Multiuso II, 2009	Alfombra Multiuso III, 2009
Alfombra Multiuso IV, 2009	Alfombra Multiuso V, 2009	Alfombra Multiuso VI, 2009
Dog Piece I, 2009

Artist Statement

Statement for Exhibition December 2009

I mistrust the presumption that interpretation is the effective response to art.

It may be that the adaptive function of all the arts is simply to get people to look and listen longer and more carefully and completely.

I make things I like to look at. During the process of making them I look hard at them. This experience is pleasurable. And, when I feel they are complete I continue to look at them and the pleasure is mixed with satisfaction and joy.

Then it may occur to me that I would like to see what a variation on what I have done would look like. So the process continues.

Alfombras Multiusos

I want to do things with images and designs that have certain qualities - to manipulate and juxtapose them with other forms, colors, and materials. But I don’t want to be bothered to make such images or designs myself. It can be tedious. So, I use images that I have made before for other purposes or images and designs manufactured by others.

Alfombras multiusos means utility or multipurpose rugs.

Artist Bio

Tony Thompson

After an early interest in landscape and the figure Tony Thompson began his career as an
abstract painter exhibiting in the Boston and New York galleries. Thompson is still
passionate about abstract painting but when he moved to upstate New York he was
reinspired by the local landscape, the same that had been painted by the Hudson River
School painters. Thompson lives in Hudson with his artist wife, Margaret Saliske.

Selected Exhibitions
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Allersma State Museum, Groningen, Netherlands

Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson

Hoorn-Ashby Gallery, NYC

Education
Dartmouth College, Rhode Island School of Design (BFA)

Cornell U. (MFA)

New School for Social Research (MA Cognitive Psych.)

Awards and Fellowships
Fellowship Fondation des Etats-Unis, Paris

Artists Fellowship State of Mass. New York

State Arts Council CAPS Grant.

Statement

For about the last ten years I have been trying to combine what I love about landscape
painting with what I love about abstraction. The attempt is to combine, without vitiating
either, the concrete objectness of a very physical abstraction with the illusionism and rich
color of landscape. The project has produced pure landscapes and abstract paintings as
well as combinations of both in varying proportions.

To visit the artist's website click on http://www.tonythompsonpainter.com