MARINA THOMPSON
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BIO
Thompson is a mixed media artist, born in 1952 in Lexington, Massachusetts. Her father was an architect and partner of Walter Gropius. Drawing on the Bauhaus-influenced world from her childhood, her art is graphically strong, as well as informed by her years in textile design and illustration. The work is colorful, rhythmic, layered, and often speaks of sounds, both local and cosmic, while her visual elements are both macroscopic and microscopic. She studied industrial design at The Rhode Island School of Design, illustration at The Art Institute of Boston, and weaving from Mexican Indians in Uruapan, Mexico. Marina currently lives in Lexington and has her studio in her home.
“After many years of working in the field of illustration, illuminating words with images, Marina Thompson is now imaging patterns of communication and human interaction. Her paintings record an abstracted, layered and introspective experience of her encounters and conversations with the world around her. Good communication requires kinetic creativity: many layers of light, color, texture, balance, nuance, and surprise. Pattern and repetition, rhythm and interruption are a big part of what make up our lives. Geometry bridges the inner and outer worlds, adding structure and sense, both ancient and contemporary.”