Elise Thompson
Elise Thompson
Born in1988, in Cincinnati, United-States.
Now based in New York, United-States.
Education
2016 Florida State University Master of Fine Arts, Studio Art,
Tallahassee, Forida, United-States
2010 Northern Kentucky University, Bachelor of Fine Arts: Painting,
Highland Heights, Kentucky, United-States
2009 KIIS Study Abroad via Murray State University, Advanced Photography,
Professor Barry Andersen, Jean Monnet FIAP, Paris, France
Awards & Residencies
2022 DNA Artist Residency (October), Provincetown, Massachusetts, United-States
ChaNorth (August), Pine Plains, New York, United-States
Innovate Grant, Honorable Mention
2021 DNA Artist Residency (July), Provincetown, Massachusetts, United-States
Stay Home Gallery and Residency (January), Paris, France
2020 DNA Artist Residency (September), Provincetown, Massachusetts, United-States
2017 The Maple Terrace Artist Residency Program (Inaugural AiR October-December),
Brooklyn, New York, United-States
The Wassaic Project Artist Residency (June), Wassaic, New York, United-States
2016 Vermont Studio Center, with artist grant, (July), Johnson, Vermont, United-States
International Sculpture Center Student Award Nominee
Mary Ola Reynolds Miller Endowed Graduate Scholarship in Visual Arts,
Florida, United-States
2015 Boom Gallery Fellowship (June), Cincinnati, Ohio, United-States
FSU Exceptional Opportunity Award, Floride, United-States
2014 Andy McLaughlin Memorial Endowment, Floride, États-Unis
Elise Thompson (b. 1988, Cincinnati, OH) received a BFA from Northern Kentucky University in 2010 and an MFA at Florida State University in 2016. She attended the Boom Gallery Fellowship + Residency in Cincinnati, OH, in 2015 via an FSU Exceptional Opportunities award and received the Mary Ola Reynolds Miller Scholarship in Visual Arts in 2016. Additional residencies include Vermont Studio Center, The Wassaic Artist Residency, The Maple Terrace Artist Residency Program, DNA Artist Residency, Stay Home Gallery + Residency, and ChaNorth Artist Residency. Thompson has been published in New American Paintings South, Friend of the Artist, VAST Magazine, and Maake Magazine. Recent exhibitions include The Spartanburg Art Museum (SC), The Wassaic Project (NY), 500x (TX), Paradice Palase (NYC), Laundromat Art Space (FL), Westobou Gallery (GA), Soft Times Gallery (CA), and Florida Mining Gallery (FL). She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Sheer, layered surfaces call on the intricacies of transparency, both physical and figurative. Areas of these wall-bound works showing restraint emphasize the frame and details below, but through varying degrees of obscured visibility with translucent materials. Many attributes can be withheld or disguised through censored effects or outright obstruction when deciphering what is beneath. Gestures made below, between, and above continue to be seen, in some way, all at once. Materials segmented into architectural arches, fields, and nets allude to a desire for control. Also present are perceived or physical voids, which mirror cartoonish mouths or moments of vulnerability. Alongside structural planes and organic passages, the gaps become part of the image while also disrupting and diffusing. References to entrances and exits hint at places to traverse or be barred from physically or psychologically. Clear or muted communication and the history of past moves are explored through abstraction, filtered via a broad investigation of disclosure. Through semi-symmetrical gestures of concealing and revealing, competing tendencies to hesitate or indulge reflect the desire to remain private or explicitly share. The resulting images are often quirky, vaguely referential, and even eerie.
FIND / FUSE, New York
January 26 - March 11, 2023
Solo Shows (Two and three person)
2023
FIND / FUSE, Stephané Edith Conradie and Elise Thompson,
Commissaires d’exposition : Maëlle Ebelle and Francesca Pessarelli,
Ceysson & Bénétière, New York, United States
2022
Layered: works by Elise Thompson and Rachel Gisela Cohen,
Curated by : Hayley Ferber, The Yard, Brooklyn,
New York, United States
Ctrl [Alt] Self, Curated by : Allison Westerfield,
Westobou Gallery, Augusta, Goergia, United States
2021
Waiting Room, Curated by : Allison Westerfield,
Laundromat Art Space, Miami, Florida, United States
2020
Fun Baggage: Brittany Ham and Elise Thompson, Mantle Art Space,
San Antonio, Texas, United States
2019
Below Ground/Above Ground, Also Gallery, Online
2018
Chunk: Scott Bell and Elise Thompson, 500 X Gallery, Dallas, Texas, United States
Portal 4: Cast Shadows and Feelings, SOUP Experimental and Cat Family Records,
Tallahassee, Florida, United States
2017
Threw It, Through It, SOUP Experimental, Tallahassee, Florida, United States
2016
Squish Squish Pop Pop: Paintings by Scott Bell & Elise Thompson,
Oglesby Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida, United States
2015
Amiable Strangers: Painting by Elise Thompson & Nathan Weikert, Boom Gallery,
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Group Shows
2022
Crimson Tide, Curated by : Brent Hayden and Sarah Choe,
Soft Times Gallery, San Fransisco, California, United States
Echoes of the Ancient, Curated by : Jacki Davis, Jolene Dosa,
and Ambrus Gero, 56 Bogart Ste. 122, Brooklyn, New York, United States
A Fluid and Emphatic Now, Curated by : Joshua Edward Bennett,
Tinney Contemporary at Bobby Hotel, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Collar Works’ Flat File 2021-’22, Curated by : Kate Mothes,
Collar Works, Online
2021
Moody, Curated by : Deanna Evans Projects,
Studio Archive Project, Online
IN THE WAKE OF SLUMBER, Curated by : Natalia Nakazawa,
Paradice Palase, Brooklyn, New York, United States
Mythopoeia, Curated by : Nathan Mullins, 621 Gallery,
Tallahassee, Florida, United States
2020
Shapeshifters, Terrain Gallery, Curated by : Joe Hedges
(online during COVID-19), Spokane, WA, Online
home:body, Curated by : Shayna Cohn, Distance Gallery, Online
Living Easy, Where The Sun Doesn’t Shine, Curated by : Bret Shirley,
BS Projects, Houston, Texas, United States
2019
Ad Astra Per Aspera, Curated by : Will Hutnick,
The Wassaic Project: Maxon Mills, Wassaic, New York, United States
Soft Science, Curated by : Chelsea Raflo,
Abrams Claghorn Gallery, Albany, California, United States
Traditions: Compounded, Spartanburg Art Museum,
Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States
Alternate Dimensions, Miller Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina,
United States
Salad Days, Curated by : Kate Mothes, Online
2018
Excavations; Shindig, Curated by : Saralene Tapley,
Mantle Art Space, San Antonio, Texas, United States
F.P.O.V. (Female POV), Commissaire d’exposition : Carlos E. Kempff Seleme,
MOTT NYC, Manhattan, New York, United States
Annual Faculty Exhibition, Museum of Fine Art, Florida State University,
Tallahassee, Florida, United States
2017
Wassaic Project Open Studios, The Wassaic Project, Wassaic,
New York, United States
Utopia/Dystopia, Gallery 2, Washington State University, Pullman,
Washington, United States
Annual Faculty Exhibition, Museum of Fine Art, Florida State University,
Tallahassee, Florida, United States
The Figure: Interpreted Through Contemporary Mediums, Site:Brooklyn,
Brooklyn, New York, United States
2016
Water Hose Project Show, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont,
United States
Fresh American Art, ArtMe Today, St. Petersburg, Russia
The Space Between You And Me, Museum of Fine Arts, MFA Thesis FSU,
Tallahassee, Florida, United States
The Big Reveal, The Art Academy, Cincinnati, Ohio,
United States
2015
Aqua Art Miami, Aqua Hotel, Miami, Florida, United States
Concrete Acquaintance, Thomas Deans Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia,
United States
Perspectives: Art, Liver Diseases, and Me, Reed Messe Congress Centre,
Vienna, Austria
Art + Language, Phyllis Straus Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida, United States
2014
Built, Working Method Contemporary, Tallahassee, Florida, United States
Last Friday, The Plant, Tallahassee, Florida, United States
10×10, Boom Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Shift, Thomas Deans Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
MAGENTA Show, Modern Makers at Niehoff Urban Studio, Cincinnati, Ohio,
United States
2013
Material Witness, Curated by : Women’s Caucus for Art
of Georgia, Dalton Gallery of Agnes Scott College, Decatur,
Georgia, United States
Unsettled Bodies, Curated by : Edna Dapo,
Phoenix Center For The Arts, Phoenix, Arizona, United States
2012
Fourth Annual Figurative Drawing and Painting Competition,
Curated by : Amy Freeman, Lore Degenstein Gallery,
Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, United States
Golden Ticket, Curated by : Aaron Betsky, Tina Tammaro,
and Anthony Luensman, Clifton Cultural Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
The History of the Universe Part One: In the Beginning, Curated by :
Chris Reeves, Museum Gallery/Gallery Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Bluegrass Biennial, Curated by : Becky Alley, Claypool-Young Art Gallery,
Morehead State University, Morehead, Kentucky, United States
2011
More is More, Curated by : Melissa Vandenberg,
Lexington Art League’s Loudoun House, Lexington, Kentucky, United States
Lady Parts, Southgate House Gallery, Newport, Kentucky, United States
Artists of the 21st Century, Curated by : Andrea D. Rudloff,
West Tennessee Regional Art Center, Humbolt, Tennessee, United States
Bibliography
2022
Maake Magazine Issue 14, par Kaveri Raina, Maake Magazine,
October 2022
Interview: Elise Thompson’s Otherworldly Abstract Dioramas,
Innovate Grant, January 2022
2021
Nolan, Joe, Bobby and Tinney Contemporary Team Up for A Fluid & Emphatic Now,
Nashville Scene, November 2021
Mullins, Nathan, Mythopoeia, limited edition, made for the exhibition,
designed by Drum Machine Productions, Imprimé, April 2021
2020
Artists To Watch | Elise Thompson: Transparency And Ambiguity,
VAST Magazine, Issue 1, online & print, August 2020
Meet the Women Behind 2020’s New Lines Alleyway Murals, ArtWorks Cincinnati,
October 2020
2019
Friend of the Artist Vol. 8 Interview with Taylor O. Thomas, online & print, United States
Hayes, Melissa, Alternate Dimensions at Miller Gallery presents whimsical creations
in an all-female exhibition, Charleston City Paper, February 2019
2018
Miller Gallery Features Fresh Work and Faces in “Alternate Dimensions”.
Holy City Sinner, December 2018
2017
ArtWorks Cincinnati, Transforming Cincinnati: How a Decade of ArtWorks
Murals Changed People and Communities Forever, Orange Frazer Press,
December 2017
DeBlasio, Victoria, VICTORIA DEBLASIO on Elise Thompson’s Threw It Through It,
SOUPmedia, April 2017
2016
New American Paintings #124 South, Juror Emily Stamey, June/July 2016
2015
Hedges, Joe. Amiable Strangers: Paintings by Elise Thompson
and Nathan Weikert, Boom Gallery, July 2015
Seda-Reeder, Maria. Art: Amiable Strangers: Paintings by Elise Thompson
and Nathan Weikert, CityBeat, July n° 22, 2015
Lauw, Haley. Things That Matter, limited edition,
in support of the works of Haley Lauw
2013
Grissom, Harriette. Review: Irony overshadows angst, humor edges anger
in show of women artists at Agnes Scott, Arts ATL, October n° 17, 2013
2012
Redder, Maxwell. Stand-In God, AEQAI Journal of Critical thinking and
Review in Contemporary Art, July n°29, 2012
2011
Morris, Matt. Lady Parts, CityBeat, June 2011, p15