Description
In his early work, Bill Thompson was engaged with pure painting and formalist concepts exemplified by artists such as Piet Mondrian. His later works are often three-dimensional wall installations composed of glossy, jewel-colored organic forms created with acrylic urethane on epoxy. Oxbow, Thompsons large-scale commission for MITs Koch Biology Building (Building 68) is constructed from four joined wooden panels. Reddish-brown and blue-gray painted shapes in varying shades create the illusion of a folded standing screen. Thompsons twenty-two preliminary drawings for the Oxbow painting are on view in Building 68s caf.
Details
- Work Date:
- 1995
- Location:
- Room No. 1
- Dimensions:
- 96 in. x 160 in. (243.84 cm x 406.4 cm)
- Medium:
- Pumice in a polymer gel and acrylic paint on four birch plywood panels
- Credit Line:
- Commissioned in honor of Boris & Adele Magasanik