May 1, 2022
Cheyney Thompson

Complete playlist below; tracks in yellow were cut for time.

Master Chief: Level 5 Warmup, Cassidy Byars, 2012
Catatonic Dance, Crash Worship, 1992
Dum Dum, Butthole Surfers, 1984
Études pour piano, Livre II: No. 4, Der Zauberlehrling [the Sorcerer’s Apprentice], György Ligeti performed by Eric Huebner, 1988-94,
Time and Motion Studio I, Brian Ferneyhough performed by Hugo Queirós, 1971-77
Suite for Cello No. 1, Op. 72: Moto perpetuo e canto quarto Presto, Benjamin Britton performed by Mstislav Rostropovich, 1964-65
Nomos Alpha, Iannis Xenakis performed by Garth Knox & Arditti Quartet, 1965-66
Salt Peanuts, Dizzy Gillespie, 1955
Drunk at Last, a Date with Ham, Etc., Negativland, 1989
Whisper a Prayer, Negativland, 1989
In a Lonely Place, New Order, 1981
Aruca, Medicine, 1992
Jupiter Jazz, Galaxy 2 Galaxy [originally Underground Resistance], 1996
Take Some Time Out, Arnold Jarvis, 1987
Force for the Future, Ill Machine, 1998
Puhdistus, Pan Sonic, 1996
Viola da gamba Sonata in G Major, BWM 1027; Johann Sebastian Bach, c. late 1730s early 1740s; perfomed by Pablo Casals, Paul Baumgartner, John Wummer, Bernard Goldberg, Prades Festival Orchestra, 1950
Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g’mein [Now rejoice, dear Christians, together], Chorale Prelude 734, Johann Sebastian Bach c. pre-1950, performed by Vikingur Ólafsson, 2018
Footsteps in the Fog, Ceramic Hello, 1981
Desespero, Staccato du Mal, 2011
Scampia, Martial Canterel, 2017
Silence, Martial Canterel, 2007
Mit Dir, Robert Görl, 1984
Goldberg Variations, BMV 988 Aria, Johann Sebastian Bach c. 1741, Glenn Gould, 1955
Speakers R-4 (sounds), RP Boo, 2013

Cheyney Thompson’s (b. 1975, Baton Rouge, Louisiana) practice is centered on an inquiry into the production, distribution, and exhibition of painting. His projects, which often span several years, impose structures and constraints onto the making of his work. These limitations are in turn generative, resulting in exhaustive investigations into the medium of painting and the problems that surround it. Tying his works to mathematical and economic formulas, his own labor as an artist, and the architecture that his paintings occupy, Thompson enacts a tension between their formal qualities, and the larger systems of circulation they inhabit. In 2017, Thompson’s work was the subject of an exhibition at The Brno House of Arts, Brno, Czechia, with Sam Lewitt. Other solo exhibitions include Cheyney Thompson The Completed Reference: Pedestals and Drunken Walks, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany, 2012, Cheyney Thompson: metric, pedestal, landlord, cabengo, recit, curated by João Ribas, MIT Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2012. His work has additionally been included in numerous group exhibitions, including Invisible Adversaries: Marieluise Hessel Collection, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, 2016, Money, Good and Evil. A Visual History of Economics, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany, 2016, A Slow Succession with Many Interruptions, SFMOMA, San Francisco, 2016, and Materials and Money and Crisis, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria, 2013, the 2008 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2008, among others. Thompson’s work is held in the permanent collections of the Centre Pompidou, Paris, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, SFMoMA, San Francisco, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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The Selection Committee
RADIO SHOW

now LIVE every other Sunday from 2-4pm
on Newtown Radio

in association with
International Waters gallery

Listen to Newtown Radio live HERE!
or live on Mixcloud HERE!

Past shows can be streamed below,
or on SPOTIFY!

Upcoming shows:

June 12: poet Hoa Nguyen

artist Miles Huston
writer Dave King

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