Artist Review:
Canadian born artist Ambrose Thompson’s work depicts a contemporary merging of natural aesthetics with European Constructivism. Visionary in his depiction of dimensional detail while profiling stylized color, Ambrose reflects a joining of infinity in space within the confines of contemporary realism. Presently residing in Ottawa, Ambrose, the artist, has always wanted the work to speak for itself. I believe it already has.
Profile of an Artist
B. Nemati, 2015
Artist Statement:
Art is a meditative experience. As black pixels touch a white screen, I bleed into the fiber graphics. Clarity overcomes chaos, and breath transcends stutters into slow meditative inhales. As meditation, Art should be a koan- an interpersonal journey between viewer and artist, for I am both. I am witness to the image creation that spills out of my artistic Id causing me to question expectations, identity, and belief in its rawest form of unspoken assumptions. Each piece once realized is saved. Going from a tangible medium of the internal landscape to the ephemeral quality of digital reinforces the tug-of-war between what is real and what is construct. The world of digital allows enhancement of color and texture in a way that permits jumping back into the image and finding a new depth of submergence into the collective unconscious we all share as viewers and artists of our own dimensions. If you do not see something different than I do in each piece, I have failed. Art shows us where communication goes astray.
Artist Biography:
Emerging artist Ambrose Thompson was born to American parents on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Moving from the West Coast rain forests of Canada to snowy mountains of Pennsylvania, U.S.A at a young age imprinted on his brain how different the world is experienced depending on where you live and who you are believed to be. Perhaps it was the culture shock of a new country and a new dialect, but Ambrose always felt like an outsider looking into or through to a world deep under glass.
In his teens, he was exposed to Zen Buddhism and spent a month at a Zen Monastery in Upstate New York where he learned to love stillness, quiet, and simplicity. However even in a setting surrounded by mountains and water, Ambrose felt something was missing or not right. Years went by and he met the woman of his dreams and after a whirlwind courtship they were married. It was the freedom of marriage that made Ambrose come to terms with who he was, and that was not the 'female' marked on his birth certificate but the male in hiding within is skin. Transitioning alongside his wife, he finally felt safe in his skin when he was diagnosed with cancer.
With his wife helping him step by step, he underwent surgery and radiation to put the cancer at bay. The world started to become balanced again and he recommitted himself to art and expressing his new visions and imagery. While Ambrose was born into an artistic family and had art supplies around him from birth on, it wasn 't until college and his wife introducing him to computers that he found the means for expressing what he saw against closed lids. Today Ambrose has returned home to live with his wife (his muse), daughter, and two cats in Ottawa where he continues to explore the depths of Natural Constructivism.
Contact:
[email protected]
613-413-8310
Canadian born artist Ambrose Thompson’s work depicts a contemporary merging of natural aesthetics with European Constructivism. Visionary in his depiction of dimensional detail while profiling stylized color, Ambrose reflects a joining of infinity in space within the confines of contemporary realism. Presently residing in Ottawa, Ambrose, the artist, has always wanted the work to speak for itself. I believe it already has.
Profile of an Artist
B. Nemati, 2015
Artist Statement:
Art is a meditative experience. As black pixels touch a white screen, I bleed into the fiber graphics. Clarity overcomes chaos, and breath transcends stutters into slow meditative inhales. As meditation, Art should be a koan- an interpersonal journey between viewer and artist, for I am both. I am witness to the image creation that spills out of my artistic Id causing me to question expectations, identity, and belief in its rawest form of unspoken assumptions. Each piece once realized is saved. Going from a tangible medium of the internal landscape to the ephemeral quality of digital reinforces the tug-of-war between what is real and what is construct. The world of digital allows enhancement of color and texture in a way that permits jumping back into the image and finding a new depth of submergence into the collective unconscious we all share as viewers and artists of our own dimensions. If you do not see something different than I do in each piece, I have failed. Art shows us where communication goes astray.
Artist Biography:
Emerging artist Ambrose Thompson was born to American parents on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Moving from the West Coast rain forests of Canada to snowy mountains of Pennsylvania, U.S.A at a young age imprinted on his brain how different the world is experienced depending on where you live and who you are believed to be. Perhaps it was the culture shock of a new country and a new dialect, but Ambrose always felt like an outsider looking into or through to a world deep under glass.
In his teens, he was exposed to Zen Buddhism and spent a month at a Zen Monastery in Upstate New York where he learned to love stillness, quiet, and simplicity. However even in a setting surrounded by mountains and water, Ambrose felt something was missing or not right. Years went by and he met the woman of his dreams and after a whirlwind courtship they were married. It was the freedom of marriage that made Ambrose come to terms with who he was, and that was not the 'female' marked on his birth certificate but the male in hiding within is skin. Transitioning alongside his wife, he finally felt safe in his skin when he was diagnosed with cancer.
With his wife helping him step by step, he underwent surgery and radiation to put the cancer at bay. The world started to become balanced again and he recommitted himself to art and expressing his new visions and imagery. While Ambrose was born into an artistic family and had art supplies around him from birth on, it wasn 't until college and his wife introducing him to computers that he found the means for expressing what he saw against closed lids. Today Ambrose has returned home to live with his wife (his muse), daughter, and two cats in Ottawa where he continues to explore the depths of Natural Constructivism.
Contact:
[email protected]
613-413-8310