Artist Exhibition Will Benefit The Everglades Foundation and The Arthur R. Marshall Foundation

Feb. 8, 2013 - PRLog -- "Stories from the Everglades"
Exhibition March 5 through April 5
Benefitting the Everglades Foundation and The Arthur R. Marshall  Foundation
(Palm Beach---)  Elizabeth Thompson will be exhibiting her work, "Stories from the Everglades" at Royal Poinciana Plaza, suite 327 from March 5th - April 5th. A portion of proceeds from the show will benefit the Everglades Foundation and The Arthur R. Marshall  Foundation.

Thompson was artist in Residence at the Park in 2007, and lived with alligators, pythons, scorpions and the occasional panther, as neighbours.

"For me the Everglades is not only a profoundly rich subject, but this wilderness is a place where I can imagine possible, but improbable scenarios. This is what happens when you are in a place that has the power to transport you out of everyday life. This is the Everglades," says Thompson. "The scariest part of the experience became the best part-- being truly alone and cut off. My stay solidified the connection with my surroundings, and quieted the every day noise in my head."

Thompson's quotes include Masaccio and Manet, but she paints more like a Richter or a Doig-- Sometimes even verging on the narrative pregnancy of a Fischl, all with an elaborate, highly rendered and delicate painterly touch.

The narratives that Thompson constructs are difficult to place, not just in terms of their content, but even in their voice. Constantly shifting between cinema, literature and art, the Everglades series contains a series of fleeting and elusive characters, from an abandoned Mercedes Benz half submerged in a swamp to tranquil canoes floating behind the foliage; from mercenaries to nymph-like mythical figures.

Recent paintings of development in the Everglades pose the question: Are these images about the unintentional beauty of man-made interventions, or a warning about un-checked development?

The transitions are seamless, like a continuous uninterrupted misty landscape or a magical realist plot line consisting of a suite of tableaus set in the Everglades.

About the Artist

Elizabeth Thompson lives in Ocean Ridge Florida, New York, and Paris. Her work has been shown at numerous national and international institutions including the Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL; McKay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX; and the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Ever since 1976, when she won a competition to paint a series of oil tanks on the Hudson River, Thompson has painted mural commissions in Zimbabwe and Mexico City among many others. In the early to mid -1980s, she was an artist in residence at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY, as well as the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

Thompson is represented by the Leila Heller Gallery in New York City.

Elizabeth Thompson has been a resident of Ocean Ridge, Florida since 1976. She lives in a historic home which once belonged to Major Boynton, namesake of Boynton Beach. Elizabeth also works from her studios in Paris and SoHo, (New York).

www.ElizabethThompsonArt.com

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