BIO: WILLIAM THOMPSON

BORN: Champaign, IL 1978

EDUCATION:

2006 MFA New York Academy of Art
2004 BFA School of Visual Arts

HONORS/AWARDS:

2005 Prince of Whales Scholarship: Traveling Grant to Normandy, France
2005 NYAA Faculty Scholarship
2004 NYAA Faculty Scholarship
2004 SVA Alumni Scholarship
2001 SVA Presidential Grant
2000 SVA Faculty Scholarship

EXHIBITIONS:

2006 Ruminate: Drawing Under Scrutiny Medialia Gallery
New York, NY
2005 Take Home A Nude Phillips de Pury Gallery
New York, NY
2005 Society of Illustrators Student Exhibition New York, NY
2004 American Gothic P.P.O.W. Gallery New York, NY

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

My work is an attempt to document, in a very honest way, feelings or emotions that are experienced from a life devoted to solitude and introspection. The use of self-imagery in many of my pieces helps to further reinforce this idea. The closely cropped format serves to eliminate all areas surrounding the figure, giving greater attention and emphasis to a particular gaze or body gesture. Individuals that are chosen for portraits are selected on the basis of specific personality characteristics that they posses, which I either admire greatly, find very beautiful, identify with in some way, or look for within myself. In many ways they are all self-portraits.

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