David Lee Thompson
David Lee Thompson (* 1951 in Fargo , North Dakota ) is an American sculptor , assemblage artist and poet.
Life
Thompson grew up in Devils Lake, North Dakota. From 1969 to 1975 he attended Moorhead State College in Minnesota (BA Sculpture with Lyle Laske 1975). In 1975 he worked as an assistant to Phillip MacCracken on Guerness Island in Washington. He pursued his artistic education until 1977 at Cornell University College of Fine Arts in Ithaca, New York (Master of Fine Arts - Sculpture with Jason Seley 1977). Thompson has lived in Berlin since 1977 and studied from 1979 to 1983 at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin with David Evison and Phillip King (visiting professor and one of Anthony Caro's most famous students ). In 1983 he was appointed master class student.
job
In 1982 he founded the sculpting group ODIOUS with five fellow students ( Klaus Duschat , Klaus H. Hartmann , Gisela von Bruchhausen , Hartmut Stielow and Gustav Reinhardt ). For many years the six ran a joint studio and found each other again and again for collective exhibitions. Thompson works with steel and iron, but increasingly he confronted the specific properties of steel with other (used) materials such as glass, rubber, stone or even plastic in their original colors. This gives the sculpture / installation a playful lightness: Dada , surrealism and pop art . The basic vocabulary of the individual assembly elements is geometrical or can be derived geometrically. A tendency towards oblique asymmetry with the often extremely complex nesting of the heavy volumes is characteristic of him. Contrary to all real physical conditions, the sculptures and now also the sculpture ensembles ultimately always appear astonishingly light and cheerful.
In 2008 Thompson returned to the United States. He lives and works in Boston .
Exhibitions and symposia (selection)
- 1984: "American Artists in Berlin", Amerika-Haus Berlin, Berlin
- 1984: "Rooted in North Dakota", Museum of Art, Grand Forks / North Dakota / USA
- 1984: "Presencias Plurales" workshop, Madrid / Spain
- 1987: "All India" workshop, New Delhi / India with Klaus Duschat
- 1988: Rupertinum, Salzburg
- 1988: Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin
- 1988: Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim
- 1989: Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken
- 1989: Museum Bochum, Bochum
- 1990: 3rd East Frisian Sculptor Symposium, City of Wittmund with u. a. Klaus Duschat , Cornelia Weihe and Leonard Wübbena (leaders)
- 1991: International sculpture exhibition Berlin-Schöneberg, Rudolf-Wilde Park with u. a. Hartmut Stielow
- 1992: Galerie im Bewag, Berlin
- 1993: Steel sculpture in Germany, Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg Halle / Saale with a. a. Bernhard Heiliger , Werner Pokorny , Michael Hischer , Heinz-Günter Prager and Wilfried Hagebölling
- 1994: 4th East Frisian / 2nd Wittmund Sculptor Symposium, City of Wittmund with u. a. Wilfried Hagebölling , Bernhard Luginbühl , Werner Pokorny and Leonard Wübbena (leaders)
- 1997: "Six places - six sculptors", City of Schorndorf with Werner Pokorny , Siegfried Pietrusky and Hans Michael Franke
- 1998: Kunsthaus Gahlberg-Strodehne, Potsdam
- 1999: Art Association Springhornhof Neuenkirchen in the Lüneburg Heath, Neuenkirchen
- 2000: Kulturstiftung Langenhagen e. V., 99 Viewpoints , In the eye of the hurricane
Collections
- Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca / New York / USA
- Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
- Vivantes art collection, Berlin
- Lalit Kala National Academy of Art, New Delhi / India
- Wübbena collection, Funnix / East Friesland
- Private collections in Germany and the USA
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thompson, David Lee |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American sculptor, assemblage artist, and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fargo , North Dakota |