Gallery Twist, Room with a View, January – February, 2020
Bedford Public Library, Conversations in Color, solo show, July 11 – September 21,2019
Gallery Twist, Thrive, 3 paintings in group show, Lexington MA, June 14 – July 7, 2019
Castle Hill, Anything But Flat, encaustic group show, Truro MA, May30 – June 6, 2019
Gallery X, Pattern + Concept, 3 person show,
in conjunction with the 13th International Encaustic Conference,
Provincetown & Truro MA, May 30 – June 7, 2019
MassArt Auction, 30th Anniversary, group show, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, April 22 – 30, 2019
Gallery Twist, Impressions IV, 6 paintings in group show, Lexington MA, April 12 –May 5, 2019
Higgins Gallery, Fusion, New England Wax group show, Barnstable MA, February 6 – March 2019
University of Connecticut Art Gallery, National Encaustic Exhibition, group show, March 2 – April 11, 2019
Gallery Blink, About Time, 7 paintings in group show, September 28 – October 21, 2018
Concord Art, Color & Abstraction
2 person show with Wilson Hunt June 12th - July 8th, 2018 |
Gallery Blink in Lexington MA … 5 paintings in a group show Printmaking. April - May, 2018
Concord Art mixed media show juried by Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Harrison Ave. Boston. February - March 2018
Concord Art painting show juried by Debbie Disston of the McIninch Gallery January - February 2018
Gallery Blink in Lexington MA … 5 paintings in a group show Illumination. November '17 - January, 2018
Gallery Blink in Lexington MA … 3 paintings in a group show WORDplay. Sept. 29 - Oct. 22, 2017
Gallery Blink in Lexington MA … 6 paintings in a group show BUZZ. June 23 - July 16, 2017
Castle Hill Center for the Arts … Inside Out was in a juried group show Sense of Place. May - June , 2017
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The Kobalt Gallery – Alternative Wax: Layers of Facts, a group political show juror & gallery director Francine D'Olympio. Provincetown MA. June 2017 My piece titled "No Entry" is a graphic depiction of Trump's new immigration policies. |
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The Adam Peck Gallery – Black Tie (optional) - encaustic group show Provincetown MA. June 2017 |
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Marking Time: Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the Boston Printmakers Cotuit Center for the Arts. Cotuit MA. August 2017 |
Concord Art Association: Collage, Mixed Media, Printmaking
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Concord Art Association Painting & Sculpture Show
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Hammond Hall Gallery at Fitchburg State University, solo show 2016: Reversible Floating Spaces
Gallery at R & F Handmade Paint Kingston, New York, solo show 2016: New Prints, Ancient Wax
PRESS RELEASE for solo exhibit at the Galley at R&F in Kingston, New York –– May 7 - July 16, 2016
The Gallery at R&F is pleased to present Marina Thompson’s solo exhibit New Prints, Ancient Wax. Her inspired, richly layered prints are dynamic, non-figurative, and highly coloristic. Thompson explores complex layers of shape, texture and light, often triggered by simple things—shadows on the floor or a small pattern in the garden—but utterly transformed by her vision. This exhibit merges new technologies and materials in printmaking with oil paint, gouache, flashe, and the ancient art of encaustic.
Bucking traditions of galleries and printmaking, Thompson prefers not to work in series: "Because of my design process on the computer, I take time to fully develop my ideas before beginning an encaustic work. Often I produce a prototype to work out technical issues before I develop a fully realized image. When I am finished with a piece, I move on. I can repeat a form, but rarely do so unless there is a visual demand”. Thompson’s featured works clearly show what she means by “visual demand”.
Thompson grew up surrounded by mid-20th century high-end, revolutionary domestic architecture and design. As a child and adult she worked at Design Research, her father’s iconic store that introduced the American public to Scandinavian furniture, housewares, packaging and surface design (Marimekko). Those distinct Modernist influences, her work in her father’s architectural office, plus such artists as Howard Hodgkin, Paul Klee, Josef and Anni Albers, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Calder, Cy Twomby, and Brice Marden, and her former careers in textile design and illustration, all inform her work.
Ms. Thompson has a BA from Antioch College. She has pursued illustration at the Boston Art Institute, and surface and industrial design in Rhode Island School of Design’s graduate programs. Her design work has been honored for its innovations in national and international magazines. She has painted large-scale murals for the Miami Children’s Museum, designed children’s wear for Marimekko, and produced and marketed a line of hand woven rugs under her name. Her work is included in the Children’s Hospitals in Denver and Boston, and the collection of Ann and Graham Gund. She has a forthcoming show, Reversible Floating Spaces, at Fitchburg State University, September 1 - Oct 27, 2016.
The Gallery at R&F is pleased to present Marina Thompson’s solo exhibit New Prints, Ancient Wax. Her inspired, richly layered prints are dynamic, non-figurative, and highly coloristic. Thompson explores complex layers of shape, texture and light, often triggered by simple things—shadows on the floor or a small pattern in the garden—but utterly transformed by her vision. This exhibit merges new technologies and materials in printmaking with oil paint, gouache, flashe, and the ancient art of encaustic.
Bucking traditions of galleries and printmaking, Thompson prefers not to work in series: "Because of my design process on the computer, I take time to fully develop my ideas before beginning an encaustic work. Often I produce a prototype to work out technical issues before I develop a fully realized image. When I am finished with a piece, I move on. I can repeat a form, but rarely do so unless there is a visual demand”. Thompson’s featured works clearly show what she means by “visual demand”.
Thompson grew up surrounded by mid-20th century high-end, revolutionary domestic architecture and design. As a child and adult she worked at Design Research, her father’s iconic store that introduced the American public to Scandinavian furniture, housewares, packaging and surface design (Marimekko). Those distinct Modernist influences, her work in her father’s architectural office, plus such artists as Howard Hodgkin, Paul Klee, Josef and Anni Albers, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Calder, Cy Twomby, and Brice Marden, and her former careers in textile design and illustration, all inform her work.
Ms. Thompson has a BA from Antioch College. She has pursued illustration at the Boston Art Institute, and surface and industrial design in Rhode Island School of Design’s graduate programs. Her design work has been honored for its innovations in national and international magazines. She has painted large-scale murals for the Miami Children’s Museum, designed children’s wear for Marimekko, and produced and marketed a line of hand woven rugs under her name. Her work is included in the Children’s Hospitals in Denver and Boston, and the collection of Ann and Graham Gund. She has a forthcoming show, Reversible Floating Spaces, at Fitchburg State University, September 1 - Oct 27, 2016.