TERRY THOMPSON
Nothing But Neon: New Paintings
October 16 - November 13, 2021

GBGLA is pleased to present the gallery’s seventh solo exhibition of Terry Thompson’s hyperrealist oil paintings.  The show features the artist’s newest series of highly detailed and aggressively cropped compositions of vintage neon signs and graphics. READ FULL PRESS RELEASE

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Artist Statement 2021
I see beauty in old neon signs.

I have always been fascinated by the glow inside the hand-bent, glass tubes.  I enjoy the sculptural, mechanical, one-of-a-kind aspects of my subjects.  And the words, fonts, caricatures, and colors; I love all of that too.
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Artist Biography and Resume
Terry Thompson was born in 1963 in Mountain View, CA.  His initial studies were in industrial technology and he worked as an equipment engineer for various tech companies in Silicon Valley.  While the work was interesting to Thompson, he could not get away from painting and went on to receive his BA and MFA from San Jose State University (CA).  READ MORE 

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