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Studio Visit - Lola Rose Thompson | Tappan Residency

Studio Visit

Lola Rose Thompson | Tappan Residency

 

From November 2017 to February 2018, artist Lola Rose Thompson joined us in our Downtown studio residency program. Installed in the upstairs floor, Thompson created a color-filled wonderland, reflective of the artist’s signature psychedelic aesthetic.

We sat down with Lola to talk about the affect her time in the Tappan residency program had upon her practice and the works she created in the process….

 

Lola Rose Thompson says

“The kinetic energy of walking to the studio from my apartment in MacCarthur Park most mornings really helped me solidify some of the ideas for the body of work I’m currently working on, and helped me to arrive every morning feeling fresh and ready to work.”

 

 

 

 

 

“Being in residency in Downtown was such a joy. I was able to walk to work for the first time.....ever. Walking in LA is such a rare luxury, but it really allows even an LA native like me to see the city in a completely different way and really experience it full force, with all its beauty and idiosyncrasy and hideousness right in your face! The kinetic energy of walking to the studio from my apartment in MacCarthur Park most mornings really helped me solidify some of the ideas for the body of work I’m currently working on, and helped me to arrive every morning feeling fresh and ready to work. It also didn’t hurt that there were quite a lot of flowers blooming en route. I admit, I did do a bit of flower thieving....although I prefer to think of it more as pruning....if you know how to pick flowers the right way you actually encourage more blooms! But try to explain that to some homeowner drinking their morning coffee seeing a rascally artist type wielding scissors in their front yard....it doesn’t always go over so well.


The building itself was designed originally as artist studios, and it just had this amazing energy.....like a lot of good work has been done here. I also loved being around artists with completely different working styles than mine - I find the way Martinet and Texereau work so incredible to watch - it’s magical, psychic, they are so entwined.”

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Eating Fruit & Smoking Cigs Eating Fruit & Smoking Cigs
Lola Rose Thompson
Eating Fruit & Smoking Cigs
$ 2,500.00
A Heartbreaker With No Regrets/A Heartbreaker With Regrets | Diptych A Heartbreaker With No Regrets/A Heartbreaker With Regrets | Diptych
Lola Rose Thompson
A Heartbreaker With No Regrets/A Heartbreaker With Regrets | Diptych
$ 5,000.00
The Exact Spot Where Artemis Had An Orgy With The Virgin Mary The Exact Spot Where Artemis Had An Orgy With The Virgin Mary
Lola Rose Thompson
The Exact Spot Where Artemis Had An Orgy With The Virgin Mary
$ 2,400.00
Happy / Sad Face 1 & 2 | Diptych Happy / Sad Face 1 & 2 | Diptych
Lola Rose Thompson
Happy / Sad Face 1 & 2 | Diptych
$ 4,400.00
Venus Live Streaming From The Louvre Venus Live Streaming From The Louvre
Lola Rose Thompson
Venus Live Streaming From The Louvre
$ 5,000.00
Venus Consents To Consider A Mood Stabilizer Venus Consents To Consider A Mood Stabilizer
Lola Rose Thompson
Venus Consents To Consider A Mood Stabilizer
$ 5,500.00
Girls Achieving Full Levitation Girls Achieving Full Levitation
Lola Rose Thompson
Girls Achieving Full Levitation
$ 3,800.00
Famous Flowers And Bees That Loved Them Famous Flowers And Bees That Loved Them
Lola Rose Thompson
Famous Flowers And Bees That Loved Them
$ 1,800.00
A Cosmic Goddess On A Pollen Pillow A Cosmic Goddess On A Pollen Pillow
Lola Rose Thompson
A Cosmic Goddess On A Pollen Pillow
$ 5,000.00
Venus Agonizing About The Most Recent Software Update Venus Agonizing About The Most Recent Software Update
Lola Rose Thompson
Venus Agonizing About The Most Recent Software Update
$ 1,000.00
Venus Having an Extremely Good Hair Day Venus Having an Extremely Good Hair Day
Lola Rose Thompson
Venus Having an Extremely Good Hair Day
$ 750.00
Self Portrait as Kylie Jenner’s Girl On The Side Self Portrait as Kylie Jenner’s Girl On The Side
Lola Rose Thompson
Self Portrait as Kylie Jenner’s Girl On The Side
$ 750.00
A Femme Fatale Who Failed to Fully Apparate A Femme Fatale Who Failed to Fully Apparate
Lola Rose Thompson
A Femme Fatale Who Failed to Fully Apparate
$ 275.00
A Committee Meets to Discuss Tactics for Defeating Violent Fundamentalists A Committee Meets to Discuss Tactics for Defeating Violent Fundamentalists
Lola Rose Thompson
A Committee Meets to Discuss Tactics for Defeating Violent Fundamentalists
$ 1,400.00
Shocked And Appalled Shocked And Appalled
Lola Rose Thompson
Shocked And Appalled
$ 1,200.00
Trying Not To Cry On The Dance Floor Trying Not To Cry On The Dance Floor
Lola Rose Thompson
Trying Not To Cry On The Dance Floor
$ 1,100.00
Officials in Pakistan Consult Astrologist to Divine Possible Locations of Future Drone Strikes Officials in Pakistan Consult Astrologist to Divine Possible Locations of Future Drone Strikes
Lola Rose Thompson
Officials in Pakistan Consult Astrologist to Divine Possible Locations of Future Drone Strikes
$ 160.00
Flowers To Make Up For Death (Tulips) Flowers To Make Up For Death (Tulips)
Lola Rose Thompson
Flowers To Make Up For Death (Tulips)
$ 225.00
People Trying to Communicate Telepathically But There's No Service People Trying to Communicate Telepathically But There's No Service
Lola Rose Thompson
People Trying to Communicate Telepathically But There's No Service
$ 275.00
A Sexpot Relinquishing Her Power In Exchange For Unlimited Data A Sexpot Relinquishing Her Power In Exchange For Unlimited Data
Lola Rose Thompson
A Sexpot Relinquishing Her Power In Exchange For Unlimited Data
$ 250.00 Sold
A Powerful Heartbreaker Reveling In Her Utter Lack of Moral Fibre A Powerful Heartbreaker Reveling In Her Utter Lack of Moral Fibre
Lola Rose Thompson
A Powerful Heartbreaker Reveling In Her Utter Lack of Moral Fibre
$ 850.00 Sold
(Venus is Tired Because-) Being Worshipped Is Harder Than It Looks (Venus is Tired Because-) Being Worshipped Is Harder Than It Looks
Lola Rose Thompson
(Venus is Tired Because-) Being Worshipped Is Harder Than It Looks
$ 500.00 Sold
Bowie in Drag Bowie in Drag
Lola Rose Thompson
Bowie in Drag
$ 275.00 Sold
People Trying to Communicate Telepathically And Improving Gradually People Trying to Communicate Telepathically And Improving Gradually
Lola Rose Thompson
People Trying to Communicate Telepathically And Improving Gradually
$ 350.00 Sold
A Goddess Feeling Especially Full of Herself A Goddess Feeling Especially Full of Herself
Lola Rose Thompson
A Goddess Feeling Especially Full of Herself
$ 350.00 Sold
Shame Spiral Shame Spiral
Lola Rose Thompson
Shame Spiral
$ 575.00 Sold
Girls Competing for Each Other's Affection Girls Competing for Each Other's Affection
Lola Rose Thompson
Girls Competing for Each Other's Affection
$ 400.00 Sold

About Lola Rose Thompson

Lola Rose Thompson was born in Studio City, CA and now lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She studied sculpture at the School of The Art Institute of Chicago and received her BFA from Otis College of Fine Arts. Thompson’s work employs metaphor, simile, metonymy, and other literary devices to create conceptual proximity between disparate things, and to editorialize and re-contextualize the objects she makes or finds. She is interested in the idea that objects can receive and transmit information that they may or may not contain; and moreover, that these objects have vast stores of data that may be difficult to see. The drawings, sculptures, and installations she makes are often accompanied by text; lengthy, prose-like titles that imply or describe the multiple connotative potentials of objects and words, which have previously been veiled by their exhaustive utility. She describes her work as “an invitation to the party,” encouraging the viewer to personally identify with the subjects of her works.

Press

"Lola Rose Thompson's Dissolving Watercolor Portraits," Juxtapoz Magazine

 

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STATEMENT

"I am interested in the idea that objects can receive and transmit information that they may or may not contain; and moreover, that these objects have vast stores of data and figures, that may be difficult to see. The drawings, sculptures, and installations I make are often accompanied by text; lengthy, prose- like titles that imply or describe the multiple connotative potentials of objects and words, which have previously been veiled by their exhaustive utility. I want to create unlikely empathies, and unearth the improbable similarities shared between distant things, for example the President and the World’s Tallest Woman, magic and big government, or physics and psychics. I employ metaphor, simile, metonymy, and other literary devices to create conceptual proximity between disparate things, and to editorialize and re-contextualize the objects I make or find. I am influenced by investigative journalism, headlines, the editorializing of popular culture, magic, medicine, science, and the new age.” - Lola Rose Thompson

 

PRESS

February 2015, "Lola Rose Thompson Edits Herself," Grahpite Journal

July 2015, "Lola Rose Thompson's Dissolving Watercolor Portraits," Juxtapoz Magazine

July-August 2017, "Lola Rose Thompson: 'Flowers to Make Up for Everything,'" Curate LA

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2017, Flowers to make up for everything, The Lodge. Los Angeles, CA
2016, Tappan at Platform | Spatially Speaking. Los Angeles, CA


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