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Mayo Thompson

Go to the window

28 June 2019 -
17 August 2019

opening reception on Friday,
28 June, 7-9 pm

Mayo Thompson

 

Go to the window

 

28 June - 17 August 2019
opening reception 28 June, 7-9 pm

 

Mayo Thompson (b. 1944) is from Houston, Texas and lives in Los Angeles, CA. His formal education includes Garden of Arts Kindergarten until Holy Rosary Elementary School through fifth grade, then Moye Military School until high school at Cascia Hall College Preparatory School, from which he received a diploma in 1962. He went on to St. Thomas University, trying variously, off and on, in some cases simultaneously, Pre-Law, Creative Writing, English and American Literature, Philosophy, and Art History, before dropping out and starting a band with Frederick Barthelme in 1966 The Red Crayola, after the first album, spelled with a K in the USA for legal reasons.

 

With that began professional life. No record of his private life having appeared or been made available, any sense of the person will have to come from what can be reasonably inferred from factual stuff such as production schedules and tour dates, and from hearsay and mention. Anybody interested will find that the band project persists as an instrument, so its history amounts to an index in and of curves in more lives than his alone. There have been several incarnations, in America, and in Europe, discs, and information and opinion concerning them are readily available online. When it comes to what can be read into and out of such detail, bearing in mind that how things are put is characteristically interested, things in the Wikipedia biography being prime examples, a reader who plows through will be in a position at least to sense something of his sense of the possible, and a timeline from the business associations and collaborations he developed, if only indirectly. For a sense of his aesthetic, if not one’s own musical entertainment, dipping into the catalogue, a listener will find if nothing else that each record is a record of one of a set of sets of diverse formal approaches to the problem of making music to which he was integral at various times and places. Further such sense is to be found relative to Thompson’s work as a record producer, mostly that with bands connected with Rough Trade Records and other labels in the late-70s, and early- to mid-80s Stiff Little Fingers, The Raincoats, The Fall, and James ‘Blood’ Ulmer being examples.

 

Since 2012, when a continuous performance of the band was staged via Skype during the Whitney Biennial, Mayo Thompson has begun to openly pursue his lifelong interest in visual art.

 

In 2018 Mayo Thompson published his first novella, titled “Art, Mystery”.

 

In this exhibition, his second solo exhibition at Galerie Buchholz in Berlin, Mayo Thompson presents new paintings and works on paper from 2017 to 2019.

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Mayo Thompson

Go to the window
28 June 2019 -
17 August 2019
opening reception on Friday,
28 June, 7-9 pm

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Mayo Thompson

The short straight road, 2017-2018
gouache and pencil on canvas
28 x 35.7 cm
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2019

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Mayo Thompson

The short straight road, 2017-2018
gouache and pencil on canvas
28 x 35.7 cm

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Mayo Thompson

Go to the window
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2019

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Mayo Thompson

Yellow, 2017-2018
gouache on canvas
122 x 91.5 cm

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Mayo Thompson

Monarchs, 2017-2018
gouache and pencil on canvas
76.5 x 61 cm

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Mayo Thompson

Montecito, 2017-2018
gouache and pencil on canvas
51 x 40.8 cm

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Mayo Thompson

Montebello, 2017-2018
gouache and pencil on canvas
76.5 x 61 cm

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Mayo Thompson

Go to the window
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2019

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Mayo Thompson

sphinx, 2017-2018
gouache on canvas
76.5 x 61 cm

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Mayo Thompson

Lights, 2017-2018
gouache on canvas
61 x 45.8 cm

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Mayo Thompson

Kauai Green, 2017-2018
gouache on canvas
61 x 51 cm

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Mayo Thompson

Window, 2017-2018
gouache on canvas
61 x 76.5 cm
&
Window, 2019
gouache and pencil on canvas
76.5 x 61 cm
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2019

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Mayo Thompson

Window, 2017-2018
gouache on canvas
61 x 76.5 cm

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Mayo Thompson

Window, 2019
gouache and pencil on canvas
76.5 x 61 cm

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Mayo Thompson

Piper J-3 Cub, 2019
gouache and pencil on canvas
76.5 x 61 cm
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2019

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Mayo Thompson

Piper J-3 Cub, 2019
gouache and pencil on canvas
76.5 x 61 cm

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Mayo Thompson

Go to the window
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2019

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Mayo Thompson

Go to the window
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2019

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Mayo Thompson

Constellation, 2017-2018
gouache on canvas
51 x 61 cm

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Mayo Thompson

Red square, 2017-2018
gouache on canvas
61 x 61 cm

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Mayo Thompson

Blue, 2017-2018
gouache on canvas
76.5 x 61 cm

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Mayo Thompson

Cessna 137, 2019
gouache and pencil on canvas
76.5 x 61 cm
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2019

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Mayo Thompson

Cessna 137, 2019
gouache and pencil on canvas
76.5 x 61 cm

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Mayo Thompson

Go to the window
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2019

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Mayo Thompson

Prominent, 2017-2018
gouache on canvas
61.2 x 45.7 cm

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Mayo Thompson

Commonwealth, 2017-2018
gouache and pencil on canvas
91.5 x 60.5 cm
&
Door Knob, 2017-2018
gouache and pencil on canvas
61 x 61 cm
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2019

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Mayo Thompson

Commonwealth, 2017-2018
gouache and pencil on canvas
91.5 x 60.5 cm

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Mayo Thompson

Door Knob, 2017-2018
gouache and pencil on canvas
61 x 61 cm

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Mayo Thompson

Go to the window
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2019

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Mayo Thompson

Go to the window
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2019

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Mayo Thompson

1954 Jaguar xk120,
2017-2018
gouache on canvas
50.8 x 40.7 cm

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Mayo Thompson

Shark and Fish,
2017-2018
gouache on canvas
61 x 46 cm

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Mayo Thompson

3 Yellows, 2017-2018
gouache on canvas
3 parts, each: 30.5 x 23 cm
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2019

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Mayo Thompson

3 Yellows, 2017-2018
gouache on canvas
1 of 3 parts, 30.5 x 23 cm

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Mayo Thompson

3 Yellows, 2017-2018
gouache on canvas
1 of 3 parts, 30.5 x 23 cm

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Mayo Thompson

3 Yellows, 2017-2018
gouache on canvas
1 of 3 parts, 30.5 x 23 cm

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Mayo Thompson

Riviera tree, 2017-2018
gouache and pencil on canvas
51 x 40.8 cm
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2019

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Mayo Thompson

Riviera tree, 2017-2018
gouache and pencil on canvas
51 x 40.8 cm

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Mayo Thompson

Go to the window
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2019

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Mayo Thompson

Untitled, 2019
pencil on paper
43 x 35 cm
&
Untitled, 2019
pencil on paper
43 x 35 cm
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2019

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Mayo Thompson

Untitled, 2019
pencil on paper
43 x 35 cm

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Mayo Thompson

Untitled, 2019
pencil on paper
43 x 35 cm

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Mayo Thompson

Untitled, 2019
pencil on paper
43 x 35 cm
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2019

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Mayo Thompson

Untitled, 2019
pencil on paper
43 x 35 cm

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