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Calla Thompson
Working along a continuum between drawing and photography, my practice involves both photo-based digital montage works and drawing installation works. I will use my time in residence to test materials, produce a major drawing installation in the Aferro space, as well as to plan and apply for off-site site-specific installations, using my work at Aferro as a springboard. The residency will allow me concentrated time to experiment and to conduct in-studio production of potential off-site works.
Over the past three years I have conceived
and produced two bodies of photomontage work, Nicebergs and Icebergs and Mark. My last drawing installation was
Flag.
This was a 50x40 ft. piece that I produced and installed on the risers
of the museum’s outdoor front staircase, generating the visual effect
of fragmentation and reconciliation, depending on where the viewer positioned
him or herself.
Calla Thompson’s art practice crosses media, examining the way power is enacted and exchanged in our culture. The visual language and wry humor in her work are at once comforting and familiar, dislocating and suggestive.
