"The Kool-Aid Wino" Opening Reception
Sun, Jan 21
|Studio San Giuseppe
Michael Thompson's Solo-Exhibition reframes nostalgia and memory through poignant storytelling and cinematic humor.
Time & Location
Jan 21, 2024, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM EST
Studio San Giuseppe, 5701 Delhi Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45233, USA
About the event
Michael Thompson Presents: The Kool-Aid Wino
“I lay there and thought about how life was like a Littmus Lozenge,
how the sweet and the sad were all mixed up together
and how hard it was to separate them out.”
- Kate Dicamillo, Because of Winn-Dixie
This exhibition evaluates memories as a complex fusion of positive and negative feelings; as things that shape us and that we reshape in the present. The works hold the premise that nostalgia is something that does not exist as exclusively one or the other in our minds. “The Kool-Aid Wino” is my reflection on space and time as they touch one another, cultivating a shared sensation of the world as I attempt to filter childhood emotions through adult awareness.