Roland Thompson is a Utah-based painter whose abstract works often occupy non-rectangular aluminum panels, where color becomes structure and linear form becomes the architecture of thought. He describes his practice as a visualization of relational networks—connections between people, places, and forces across time—and the paintings function less as images than as diagrammatic mappings of shifting perception. Thompson was born in Utah and received his BFA from Brigham Young University (1998) and his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University (2001), where he studied with Shirley Kaneda and James Siena. Thompson has taught at Virginia Union University as well as at Brigham Young University and Utah Valley University.

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