CHEYNEY THOMPSON

Some motifs and their sources Galerie Buchholz 19 June–30 August 2008 Cologne

Press Release

Cheyney Thompson, for his second exhibition at Galerie Daniel Buchholz presents a series of six paintings and twelve posters sub-divided into six pairs. The paintings, as an ensemble, make up a full color spectrum in their execution, transposing standard greyscale tonal values into subtle, chromatically differentiated surfaces. The luminous effect produced by these colour shifts is mottled by their densities of pigment, unsettling the surface of each image. Subjects appear and disappear here, oscillating between visibility and invisibility according to the effects of light and the viscisitudes of distraction. Each painting of the six represents a selected motif from Thompson’s previous work.

The derivation of these previous subjects extends into a suite of prints glued to the walls. Split into pairs, this suite reproduces the same source images using two different duotones colour systems. Each pair of prints depicts a magnified detail of the documents which serve as the source for one of the six paintings. As they are configured in the gallery, the prints trace the edges of the paintings to which they correspond. Each pair marks the borders of this determined scale as a unique spatial coordinate, exhausting the possible positions the source images may take in relation to their referents.

About the Artist

Born in 1975 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Cheyney Thompson’s pale, multi-coloured and grid-based paintings are made by the artist imposing specific restraints or systems on his painting process. Positioned in a history of artists who use external factors to determine the outcome of their works, Thompson visualises complex data and formulae in order to investigate production, labour and systems of distribution in the art world.

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About the Gallery

Galerie Buchholz is an art gallery specializing in international contemporary art, with exhibition spaces in Cologne, Berlin and New York City. The gallery was founded in Cologne in 1986 by Daniel Buchholz, and today is run jointly with Christopher Müller.

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