David Thompson has been printing since 1969, when he began by producing a serigraphic poster for the Georgetown University orchestra. This is his fifth exhibition at the Schomburg Gallery. He is also a member of the Washington Printmakers Gallery in Silver Spring, Maryland. Over the past decade his work has fallen into three principal areas:

• Images exploring the aesthetic and more broadly cultural, but non-literary, aspects of “text” – in particular, the ways in which we “read” life in an urban environment. This theme dominated his first two public exhibitions: “Bi-Coastal: NYC/LA” in 2003 (as part of a three-artist group show), and then in the solo exhibition “Tattoo: Text and the City” in 2005. A further exhibition, “Real Pizza” in 2008, returned to this theme with two variations, one exploring a more expressionistic, color-based approach and the other adopting a more nearly Photorealist sensibility.
  
  
• Images exploring the structures of natural forms in a group of prints first exhibited in the 2007 “Metaflora” exhibition. These prints sought to examine the order-within-chaos expressed in a range of natural phenomena, from forests to blades of grass.
  
  
• Images focusing on the interpenetration of light and matter, largely again in an urban context and again frequently addressing the presence of “text” in urban life, represented in the 2010 “Passing Through” exhibition.

Mr. Thompson lives and works in Pasadena, California.