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Sue Martine Tompkins was raised in the New York/New Jersey area and received her BFA at Manhattanville College. Her work encompasses a broad range of mediums, deconstructed materials and reconstructed to form images and concepts. She tends to incorporate different materials ranging from traditional paints, collage materials, found objects or even unconventional substances such as air pollution and mud. Her work is concerned with relationships between history, perception, and individual memory. Her most recent pieces are predominantly text-based, at times questioning systems of power with a visual word play and a dash of humor or cynicism. She is influenced by history, new media, and having been raised in a household with many analytical, introspective writers. Her artwork has been in shows across the U.S. She has lived and worked in Los Angeles for twenty years. Her recent text series is a vehicle to explore how dynamics of words or phrases can be lost, enhanced or manipulated through repetitions. Sue is fascinated by how quickly the meaning of words can be misunderstood when taken out of context, and take on a new direction, creating a new landscape with varying results. Through this process some words or phrases get warped and fester to the extent they are no longer communicated properly, reinvented or not communicated at all. Languages create a landscape both visually and metaphorically. Exhibitions 2020 -2021 Meditations and Manipulations, Brownson Gallery, Manhattanville College - One Person Show 2019 Parlor Pages Exhibition, Parlor, Los Angeles, CA 2019 Ultra-Psychonics Installation Parlor, Los Angeles, CA – Three Person Show 2018 Making Lightly Atche Art Space, Los Angeles, CA 2018 Getty Underground Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA – staff exhibition 2014 Intimate Dialogues, Constructions and Reflections, Katonah Village Library, Katonah, NY 2014 I Dream Of..., Incline Gallery San Francisco 2014 I Dream Of..., ArtTik & Civil Academy, Berlin 2013 Group Show Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY 2013 Notes to My Younger Self, The Walking Gallery, Pomona, CA 2013 Prayer Flag Project Installation, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA 2013 "Cyborgs and Posthuman Culture" Arnica Arts Center, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada 2012 Group Show, Grace Albrecht Gallery, Sauder Fine Arts Center, Bluffton, Ohio 2012 "Seeing the Chanson D'Automne" The Gallery at 3517 West Sunset, Los Angeles, CA–Three Person Show 2012 Legacy Campaign, Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction, Colorado 2012 Paper Girl, White Canvas Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 2011 Group Show, Monk Space, Los Angeles, CA, 2011 Figuratively Speaking, Los Angeles, CA– One Person Show 2009 Construction, De-Construction, Re-Construction, UCLA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, themed collaboration 2006 Recent Works Lulu's Space, West Los Angeles, CA -One Person Show 2005 Recent Works Lulu's Space, West Los Angeles, CA -One Person Show 2005 Open Call L.A., Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA 2004 Group Show, Lankershim Arts Center, North Hollywood, CA 2004 Open Call L.A. Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA 2004 Resolutions, Melrose Lightspace, West Hollywood, CA 2003 Arts Coalition Gallery, North Hollywood, CA 2002 California Artists For Humanity, Hollywood, CA 2002 Recent Works, North Hollywood Arts Festival, North Hollywood, CA 2001-2002 Locals Gallery, North Hollywood, CA 2001-2002 – Featured Artist at Group Shows Other Projects and Collaborations Residency - Making Lightly Atche Art Space, Los Angeles, CA, October 2018 “Indivisible Project” group installation at Moorpark College Art Gallery, Moorpark, CA April 2018 “Indivisible Project” group installation L.A. Makers Pop-Up, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA 2018 Sketchbook Project, Brooklyn Art Library, national tour throughout 2013 Los Angeles Correspondence School 2008 Publications and Features Parlor Pages 2019 Peace Project Book 2012 Artful Vagabond 2012 Postcard Collective 2013 |
