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Joseph Thompson http://jtoriginals.net Mediums - oil on canvas Artist's Statement -My passion is to create and share my Art with others. I want to provoke a connection with the viewer to explore the canvas. I feel a large format can over power the viewer to explore the subtle intimate movements that I create by line, color, shape and form. The style in which I paint in is surrealistic cubism. Dream like atmosphere or quality mixed with fractional elements of line, colour, shape and form. By using this style I am able to create symbolic attributes and metaphors. Colour can represent human character and emotion whereas line shape and form can represent persons, ideas and places. In this style I can enter change colour to represent persons, ideas and places and line, shape, and form can represent human character and emotion. In this style, I am working on two series one is conceptual. Example the painting Barriers focal point is a broken tricycle. The chromatic red stands alone among the monochromatic shapes. Red is symbolic of strength, power, and love. The object a tricycle can be symbolic for a person, a means of movement a tool to over come an obstacle. Large doors a metaphor for a barrier. Although the door or doors are large the hue of the barrier is monochromatic this is symbolic for lack of strength.. This is one painting of many for viewers to explore and discuss with others. Although Barriers is a conceptual painting its aesthetics deal with the design element which brings me two the second series abstraction. These paintings deal with the simplistic movement. I enjoy moving the viewer in and out of the compositions by line, colour and shape. Example: Abstract IV red the focal point surrounded by yellow shapes surrounded by cool hues. I mixed in line directing the eye in and out of the composition of hues. With these paintings the viewer can create his or her own reality of what the painting means or represents. Art to me is a connection with others a visual relationship between the Artist and the Viewer. Gallery Affiliations - Columbus College of Art and Design annual show92’ thru 96’. Short North Gallery92’ Doo Wack Gallery 96’ 98’ Manhattan Arts International 99’ (award of Excellence) Lanning Gallery Group 99’;00’ Lanning Lemon Grass 00’ Ohio Art League 2 person 00’ Lanning Gallery 02’ Art for life 2002 Davenport Gallery 2002-04 ALL GO SIGNS2002-03 Gallery Especial’04 Exhibitions - commissions: Salem mall 91; 15’x24’ Mural Dayton Joy Land 91, 10’x12’ Mural WAZU radio station 91, 24â€x38†oil painting Columbus College of Art and Design Alumni 94 48â€x48â€oil painting Zero Base AD. ag. collection oil painting 95’ Lithokraft 2 co. pastel on board 20â€x25†6Rivers Org. collection 97’ 12’x10’ Mural Grange Ins. Collection 98’ Human Rights Campaign 01’<Michael Keleher> Karl Seisnger 02’ AmerilinGua 02’ L.H. Studio inc. 02’ |  |
Biography - Joseph M. Thompson, a.k.a. J.T., a resident of Ohio got his start at Sinclair Community College of Dayton, Ohio at the age of 21. J.T. discovered during his two years at Sinclair higher education was needed. He submitted his application and received his acceptance to the Columbus College of Art and Design. In his studies J.T. got the passion for the process of the paint and he accepted the paint for expression. J.T. excelled in oil colors where he produced large organic paintings. This series of organicism pushed J.T. to explore his palette and to push the hue towards expression. He explored in gestural figures in genre settings this short series sent J.T. back to studying his influential painters. Cezanne and Van Gogh’s application of brilliant hues combined with Matisse and Gauguin’s pure passion for color inspired J.T.’s palette. Dechamp, Braque and Chagall influenced his design and the movement of the paint. J.T. still could not find the right element to inspire a series until these words chaos and order. These opposite words lead J.T. to an on going series of surrealistic cubism. J.T. created these paintings to explore explosive issues of color, design and the order of movement. J.T.’s work is bold, dynamic, stimulating and mysterious.The images capture the viewer and entice the eye to explore the composition. |