Cheyney thompson biography of michael

Born 1975 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; lives in New York, New York

From the brushstroke, minutely controlled, to the expansive market context in which artworks are disseminated, Cheyney Thompson’s paintings, photographs, and installations investigate the contemporary landscape of invention and distribution. His 2006–07 show at Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York offered a systematic exploration of this network. Entitled Quelques Aspects de l’Art Bourgeois: La Non-Intervention (Certain Aspects of Bourgeois Art: Non-Intervention), Thompson’s installation comprised multiple parts: a series of twenty-five color offset lithographs depicting the gallery’s art storage bay, clustered in five quintets; four large abstract grayscale oil paintings derived from blurred photocopies; and eight lightweight folding tables on which were displayed sixteen imageless photographic prints progressing from white to black. A viewer following the diagonal pat