Paintings featured in NO TEARS online magazine

This month i was lucky enough to have my paintings featured in the latest issue of NO TEARS magazine entitled Lost Paradise. Good Neighbors was even chosen for the cover! Other Featured artists are Morgan Craig, Alnis Stakle, Louise Thomas, Sejma Prodanovic, Bianca Van Baast, Michelle Valenton, Aquil Copier, Maja Obradovic, and Melissa Steckbauer. Thanks to the crew at NO TEARS and thanks to the other artists. I am honored to be among such excellent artwork!

Visit No Tears magazine online here http://www.notearsmagazine.com

or here to download the magazine

http://www.notearsmagazine.com/ufiles/1249562532_No_Tears_Magazine_Lost%20_Paradise.pdf

NO TEARS magazine is a submission driven art & illustration magazine. Every 2- 3 months artists and designers present themselves in the magazine, featuring work that is of high quality but little known amongst a wider audience. It is a colorfoul mix of illustrations, street art, and photography, with a wide variety of angles, themes and styles. NO TEARS sees itself as a platform for promoting worldwide contemporary art and encouraging networking with it.

Hung Out to Dry is awarded Best in Show honor at the Cambridge Art Association's Northeast Prize Show

My Sculpture Hung Out to Dry in Vietnam was included in and won Best in Show honors at this years Northeast Prize Show at the Cambrige art association in Boston, MA. The reception is May 29th from 6-8pm.

For more information about the show you can visit the Cambridge Art Association's home page at: www.CambridgeArt.org

For more about the sculpture please visit my webpage at
http://jessethompsonart.com/Site/hung%20out%20to%20dry.html

Cure for Policy and Good Neighbors included in Paul Pinkman's Hard Times/Down Home exhibit

Two of my paintings have been included in Paul Pinkman's Hard Times/Down Home show at the Watchung Arts Center in Watchung NJ. The show is open May 3rd until May 29th and is filled with wonderful art about our changing and challenging
world. Please stop by if you find yourself in the area.

self-incrimination

Eleanor and I have been collaborating at a local abandoned building in downtown providence. We found a big open area that we can access and are using the materials we can find there to make the place a little more special/surreal/visited/mysterious/whatever. We decided to use the unending sea of broken glass from window panes that fell from the floor above to create a reflective pyramid in the center of the open-air stage.

























This is what we have so far. Its been alot of work to shovel and pile all the glass and as you can see in the pictures below, we still have a ways to go if we are going to use all the glass


Eleanor pouring glass



still alot more to go...

Hard Times/Down Home in Watchung NJ

I will have these two paintings in a group show called Hard Times/Down Home opening May 3rd at the Watchung Arts Center in Watchung NJ

curated by Paul Pinkman

http://www.pinkmania.com/

Heres a link to the Watchung Centers Home page for information

http://watchungarts.org/index.htm

My trip home

Just before escaping Asbury Park, Eleanor and I stopped off to take some pictures around town. Luckily it was ridiculously foggy, which made for some interesting photos.



Lots of geese everywhere....


The beginnings of a highrise condominium complex that
wont ever be built.

An interesting house on Kinglsy st. just off the water


More construction?...

GEOGRAPHIED!!

After a long day of studying, I have completed (without cheating) a whole map of the continental United States - all on my own! I am hoping that this acheivement qualifis me to pass the fourth grade in most of the states i have amorphously drawn.

Notice the delicate linework

RISD Biennial 2009

One of my sculptures SLIDE has been selected to be in the RISD New England Alumni Biennial 2009 at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown MA. Dina Deitsch, assistant curator at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, MA, will curate the exhibition.

you can read about Slide here

http://jessethompsonart.com/Site/slide.html

another page from C.X.

just more folks I've been making uncomfortable through staring.

more C.X.

just some more portraits from Coffee Exchange Visits. This set features regular patron Johnathan in a grumpier than realistic portrayal (he's much more cheerful in the real). Sorry Johnathan

a page from coffee exchange 12/15/08

This page happened during my first appearance at coffee exchange. My frequent visits there now make my sketchbook and Melissa Meyer very happy.

some drawings from RISD Life Drawing

some sketches from life drawing

Some 2, 5 and 10 minute sketches, plus a montage of my current favourite RISD model

a montage of drawings: sweet gf

Just some quick sketches of the sweet GF

RISD Nature Lab

Figure Drawing didn't happen this week, so I went down to the Nature Lab to sketch

Drawing from JumpsART '08

This is a quick sketch i did in the Figure Drawing room after hours. Just for fun...

drawing from Jumpstart '08

A quick sketch I did in Figure Drawing Class during Jumpstart '08

two sketchbook pages

2 more pages from RISD life drawing, Febuary '08