Aaron M. Thompson is a professional painter whose paintings and drawings have been exhibited in P.A.F.A.’s Samuel M.V. Hamilton Museum, the Charles Demuth Museum, and Provincetown art association museum. A native of Charleston, South Carolina, Thompson earned his B.F.A. from Savannah College of Art and Design and was awarded the merit scholarship from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he later earned a Master’s Degree in painting. As a Gamblin Artist Colors Mid-Atlantic educational representative, Aaron has given lectures on “navigating color space” and oil painting “material practices” at museums and institutions of higher education for over a decade. Currently, he is a full-time assistant professor at the Pennsylvania College of Art and Design where he teaches drawing and painting in the fine art department. His curatorial work most notably includes “work behind the work” for the Charles Demuth Museum and “In depth” for the Pennsylvania College of Art and Design.

Artist Statement

It is important for me to paint from observation in a direct manner to capture my perception as truthfully as possible. Through the exploration of space, form, and situation, I attempt to make tangible a single moment of accumulated experience. Sometimes it is a space that intrigues me, other times it is what inhabits.