Roadside Art: Paintings by Terry Thompson
August 12, 2006 through September 14, 2006
Thompson’s paintings remind the viewer of an era whose exuberant style reflected confidence in the future and excitement about the present. The hallmark space-age motifs and colors, resurrected under the artist's precise brush, transport us to a time, real or imagined, when we bought our milk from a dairy and went bowling after work.
Yet his depiction of broken neon and peeling paint jolts us out of the past, a reminder that these signs are relics, hanging on against a modern tide of uniformity. Across America today, blandly familiar signs greet us - more tasteful perhaps, and certainly based on more market research - but lacking the personality and originality of the old signs that Thompson portrays.
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