Roland Thompson breathes color into minimalism with exceptionally crafted painted aluminum works. The paintings are non-pictorial — no image, no story attached. Their straightforward outer shapes hold a spot on the wall that begs close examination. Their bold colors and patterns are at once reminiscent of something […]
Salt Lake City July 17 – August 29, 2026 Reception: July 17, 6–9 pm In blip, Roland Thompson presents a series of custom-cut, three-dimensional wall works that blur the boundaries between painting and sculpture. Inspired by the visual language of pop art, arcade games, and digital culture, the […]
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 […]
“I want to take a viewer somewhere”—Roland Thompson There’s something that in theory can happen to any artist, but is particularly wonderful when it happens to one who has chosen an arduous path: one that imposes some external standards of its own on the craft of art making. […]
In his new work, interlocking lines of colored metal, with no other compositional elements, Roland Thompson has gone to the core of his aims and has created pure objects.
Draw an X from corner to corner across Utah (something the Democratic Party did years ago) and right where the two diagonals meet, in the geographic center of the State, Sanpete County nestles in the valley that shares its name. Like Shangri-la, this long, narrow rift, stretching from […]
