Oily Works
132 x 102 inches
Oily Works is a 2020 exhibition of paintings by Mayo Thompson. It was held from November 21, 2020 to January 30, 2021 at House of Gaga in Los Angeles.
Works
| Year | Title | Medium | Dimensions | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Uh-Oh | Oil on linen | 335.28 x 250.08 cm | "An epic composition showing a life size 1954 Jaguar parked before a sublime seascape" |
| 2020 | Et in Arcadia | Oil on linen | 274.32 x 182.88 cm | |
| 2020 | History | Oil on linen | 274.32 x 182.88 cm | "Another large-scale composition, depicts a vertical heap. Painted in a Cubist manner, History confronts the viewer with a looming, flattened-out patchwork of rusty brown tones." |
| 2020 | Dragonfly, Catfish | Oil on linen | 274.32 x 91.44 cm | |
| 2020 | Toad, Grasshopper | Oil on linen | 40.64 cm | |
| 2020 | Office | Oil on linen | 40.64 x 20.32 cm | |
| 2020 | Santa Cruz Pinky | Oil on linen | 40.64 x 40.64 cm | |
| 2020 | After Dark | Oil on linen | 27.94 x 21.59 cm | |
| 2020 | Franz von Assisi | Oil on canvas | 27.94 x 21.59 cm | "A cropped section of Bellini’s St. Francis in Ecstasy (1480) becomes a whimsically disorienting abstraction when separated from its original context."
See also: song Franz Von Assisi |
| 2020 | Supper | Oil on linen | 27.94 x 21.59 cm | "Thompson supplements a fragment of the tabletop in Da Vinci’s The Last Supper (1495-1498) with a life-size black fly." |
| 2020 | Milk | Oil on linen | 27.94 x 21.59 cm | "The fleshy cavity of a ceramic jug and a stream of bright milk are an extreme closeup of Vermeer’s The Milkmaid (1657-1658)" |
| 2020 | Eden | Oil on linen | 27.94 x 21.59 cm |