Oily Works

Uh-Oh, 2020
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.

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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