Artist talk with Esmé Thompson and Patrick Dunfey: Friday, October 17, 5:30-7:00 PM | Patrick Dunfey at 5:30, Esme Thompson at 6:00.
Patrick Dunfey: New Paintings
Exhibition Statement | The paintings in this exhibition were created over the past year on heavy watercolor paper using pure pigments mixed with white and black gesso. While the artist draws on recognizable forms, their use of scale, compressed space, flattened perspective, and distorted geometry removes the sense of the objects being simple representations of something observed. Instead, the works evoke memories or imagination. Although specific references may be hard to identify, the intention is for the paintings to engage the viewer, as if they are fixed in the mind of someone for whom the subject holds particular significance. The relationship between the subjects and their titles aims for the paintings to communicate meaning on their own.
Esmé Thompson: Recent Paintings
Exhibition Statement | This immersive work consists of painted, shaped wooden panels arranged to create a choreographed sequence of design and color that flows through the space. The paintings on the walls are grouped by tone and hue, guiding visitors through an impression of dawn on the first wall, to the brilliance of daylight on the center wall, and finally into the deepening colors of evening and night on the third. For decades, Thompson has explored painting as an environment—an art form that doesn’t simply hang on walls, but surrounds, guides, and transforms the viewer’s sense of space.
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