Email: E@elizabeththompsonart.com
Education
1971-75 Mount Holyoke College, Bachelor of Arts Degree, Magna Cum Laude, Massachusetts
1971-76 École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris
1975-77 Pratt Institute, Master of Fine Arts, New York
Solo Exhibitions
1974 Mount Holyoke College Museum, Massachusetts
1977 Pratt Institute Gallery, New York
1978 Galerie Les Arts Plastiques Modernes, Paris
1979 Plan Gallery, Knokke-Le-Zoute, Belgium
1983 Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York
1989 Galeria Lavignes-Bastile, Paris / Albemarle Gallery, London
1990 Barbara Gilman Gallery, Miami, Florida
1993 John Harms Center, Englewood, New Jersey
1996 Art Miami, Miami, Florida / Adamar Fine Arts, Miami, Florida / Caesarea Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
2001 Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, New York / Sommerhill Gallery, Durham, North Carolina
2004 Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, New York
2006 Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery, New York
Group Exhibitions
1981 Six at Mount Holyoke College Museum, Massachusetts
1982 "Selected 20th Century American Painting & Sculpture," / Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York / "Collectors Gallery 16," McKay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
1983 "Selected 20th Century American Painting & Sculpture," / Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York
1988 "New York - New Works," Helande Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
1990 "Pools", Modus Vivendi Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland / "Pools", Art Moderne Gallery, Moscow, Russia / "Pools", Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, Florida
1991 "Nuptuals", Helander Gallery, New York / "Pools", Stuart Levy Gallery, New York / "Pools", Stuart Levy and Helander Galleries, New York City
1992 Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida / "Pools", Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado
1996 Art Miami, Miami, Florida / Adamar Fine Arts, Miami, Florida / Caesarea Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
2005 Art Miami, Miami, Florida / Adamar Fine Arts, Miami, Florida
2008 Scope Art Fair Miami, Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery, New York
2010 Tripoli Gallery, South Hampton
2010 Miami International Airport
Awards and Honors
1974 Janet F. Brooks Memorial Prize in Painting
1975 Phi Betta Kappa Award
1976-77 Skinner Foundation Fellowship
1977-78 Rotary Foundation Fellowship
1979-81 Artist in Residence, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1984-86 Artist in Residence, PS 1, Queens, New York
2006 Artist in Residence, Everglades National Park, Florida
2009 National Organization of Women, NOW award for Women of Power and Substance
Commissions
1975 Mural Commission for Village in the Park, Chicago, Illinois / Hotel, Stamford, Connecticut
1976 Conversion of 135 oil storage tanks into a work of art. 300,000 square feet on the bank of the Hudson River, Commissioned by Belfer Associates and Prudential Insurance Company
1977 Mural Commission for the Rosalie Clinic, Aubervilliers
1981 Mural Commission for the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire Charlton Park, Malmesbury, England
1983 Mural Commission for the Wilmington Trust Company, Wilmington, Delaware
1984 Mural Commission for Southwestern Bell Telephone, Dallas, Texas
1985 Triptych for Lincoln Properties, Dallas, Texas
1986 Two murals commissioned for the Club Corporation of America, Dallas, Texas
1989 Mural Commission for Robert Wood Johnson IV, Rockefeller Center, New York
1990 Mural Commission for the Association to Benefit Children, New York / Mural Commission for Mr. and Mrs. Tom Wolfe, New York
1991 Mural Commission for Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wood Johnson IV for "The Farm", Lammington, New Jersey
1993 Mural Commission for El Grupo Financiero Asemex Banpais, Mexico City
1994 Second Mural Commission for El Grupo Financiero Asemex Banpais, Mexico City
1995 Mural Commission for the Delaware Water Authority, Delaware Memorial Bridge
1996 Mural aboard Ferry Boat for the Delaware Water Authority Mural on façade of five-story building for the Association To Benefit Children
1997 Mural Commission for Marriott Shanghai Tang Emporium, First National Bank of Florida
1998 Mural Commission for New York University Hospital, New York
2000 Mural Commission for the Board Room of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York
2003 Mural Commission for Mr. and Mrs. Glen Dubin, New York
Collections
McKay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Brown
Mr. Howard Gittis
Mr. Itchko Ezratti
Mrs. Francis Lloyd
Weil, Gotschal and Manges, New York City
Wells, Rich and Green, New York City
Ingram Yusek, New York City
Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Hess
Mr. Harry Joe Brown
Dr. and Mrs. Patrick Stubgen
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Wolfe
Oil on Canvas
53" x 57" / 1987
Oil on Canvas
57" x 53" / 1989
Oil on Canvas
70.5" x 46" / 1987
Oil on Canvas
59" x 59" / 1987
Oil on Canvas
64" x 69" / 1989
Oil on Canvas
54" x 52" / 1988
Oil on Canvas
70" x 52" / 1988
Oil on Canvas
69" x 50" / 1988
Night time swims with friends inspired this series, and allowed me to reference Florida for the first time.
The cloying warmth of night summer air, voyeurism, film noir, and the uninhibited freedom of weightless motion were all part of the pool narrative. Swimming at night in an illuminated pool is an extraordinary visual and sensual experience. The portion of the body above the surface is dark except for the turquoise reflection from the water's surface. Underwater, the body's shape and color is distorted.
These paintings became part of a show that I co-curated. The exhibition included David Hockney, Jennifer Bartlett, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, Francesco Clemente, and Julie Heffernan, among others, and traveled to five venues. Among these was a newly privatized gallery in Moscow. This was to be their first exhibition that was independent of government influence. The show opened the spring before the Berlin Wall was torn down. It was ironic yet fitting, that "Pools," the ultimate capitalist symbol, should be among the first privately mounted exhibitions since 1917.
