ROSIE THOMPSON

bio

Rosie has exhibited in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Alabama, Louisiana, Washington, DC, Texas, Berne Switzerland, and New York City. Her traveling exhibitions have been in Europe and the USA. Her lectures and workshops have been in Europe and the USA. Her lectures have been in the USA, Tokyo, Japan, Aarau, Switzerland, and Mexico City, Mexico.

Rosie’s grants and fellowships include North Carolina Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts Project Grants and Visual Artist Fellowship Grants, Pittsburgh Foundation, A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust Fund Visiting Artist Grant, Lily Endowment Grant, Colorado Springs, and Kansas Arts council Visiting Artist Grants.

Among the publications that include Rosie’s Works are: This Way Day Break Comes, A. Cheatham and M.C. Powell: Contemporary American Women Sculptors, Virginia Watson Jones; The Village Voice, Washington City Paper, Dialogue: Arts in the Midwest, Artspeak, New Art Examiner, Arts Journal, Washington Review, International Sculpture, and numerous catalogues.

http://www.tristatesculptors.org/
http://www.frankisart.com

statement

Rosie’s varied media works take the form of large scale site-specific installations, smaller more intimate constructions, and drawing/collage dealing with the spatial realm that gives way to the sculptural shamanistic forms.

“On a very basic level, my work is about the celebration of the life and/or death of the human spirit as it coexists with living beings on our planet. On an abstract level, I feel my creative spirit exists in the tension field between these two modes of “being”. My work is the result of my investigation of form as the dialogues between my work and myself are made concrete or brought to a comprehensive state. It is through this dialogue that I investigate the inner and outer limits of Art, Life, and Death.” — Rosie Thompson

work

1THOMPSON-RosieG_PinkMoon_wood_paint_photo2x4x2'

Regeneration Series- Pink Moon
Date: 2013
Medium: Wood, Paint, Photo appliques
Dimensions: 2′ X 4′ X 2″ (H X W X D)

2THOMPSON-RosieG_GreenMoon_wood_paint_photo2x4x2'

Regeneration Series- Green Moon
Date: 2013
Medium: Wood, Paint, Photo appliques
Dimensions: 2′ X 4′ X 2″ (H X W X D)

3THOMPSON-RosieG_AquaMoon_wood_paint_photo2x4x2'

Regeneration Series- Aqua Moon
Date: 2013
Medium: Wood, Paint, Photo appliques
Dimensions: 2′ X 4′ X 2″ (H X W X D)

4THOMPSON-RosieG_PurpleMoon_wood_paint_photo2x4x2'

Regeneration Series- Purple Moon
Date: 2013
Medium: Wood, Paint, Photo appliques
Dimensions: 2′ X 4′ X 2″ (H X W X D)

5THOMPSON-RosieG_BlueMoon_wood_paint_photo2x4x2'

Regeneration Series- Blue Moon
Date: 2013
Medium: Wood, Paint, Photo appliques
Dimensions: 2′ X 4′ X 2″ (H X W X D)

6THOMPSON-RosieG_CoralMoon_wood_paint_photo2x4x2'

Regeneration Series- Coral Moon
Date: 2013
Medium: Wood, Paint, Photo appliques
Dimensions: 2′ X 4′ X 2″ (H X W X D)