KRISTINE THOMPSON

INFLECTION POINTS

Oct 1 - 31, 2024

FIRST WEDNESDAY OPENING: Oct 2 FROM 6 - 9PM

ARTICULATE ARTIST TALK: SUNDAY, Oct 20, AT 4PM.

NORMAL GALLERY HOURS: TUE - SUN, 12PM - 6PM

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Kristine Thompson’s work explores both emotional and social responses to loss and mourning, including how we grieve and the memorial properties we attach to significant objects and spaces. Her work has increasingly considered the materiality of photographs, how images circulate publicly, and what power such images have to elicit empathy on the part of the viewer.

“This exhibition includes photographs made in response to contemporary political and social events. I utilize elements from daily newspapers and treat the paper and its contents as objects to alter, collage, and re-contextualize. The resulting compositions are my attempts to linger with the selected images, texts, and events and handle them in a tactile way. Through gestures of removal and reconsideration, I reflect upon the supreme court decisions, wars, displacement, climate crisis, and protests that have occupied our collective consciousness in recent years. An inflection point marks a moment of possibility--one that holds the potential for significant change. I think about this in relation to the subjects addressed here, in this moment before an election.” - Thompson

Thompson serves as an Associate Professor of Art (Photography) at Louisiana State University, here in Baton Rouge. Dating back to 1999, her work has been featured throughout the United States, including exhibitions in Chicago, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and Denver, among many others. Additionally, she has been involved in more than a half dozen curatorial projects, had writings published by Phaidon Press and UCR/California Museum of Photography, and received numerous honors.

This exhibition is on view alongside works from three of our other artist members: Jeremiah Ariaz, Justin Tyler Bryant, and Lauren Cardenás. All works from these artists are on view, free of charge, during regular gallery hours (12 - 6 p.m., Tue - Sun) from Oct 1 - 31, 2024.