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Cappy Thompson 
CV | Website | @thompsoncappy
EXHIBITIONS
Through the Looking Glass, Group, Dec/Jan 2026, studio e, Seattle, WA
FUTURE FAIR, May 2025, NY
Thinking of Angels, March/April 2025, studio e, Seattle, WA
Seattle Art Fair, July 2025
Indie Folk: New Art and Sounds from the Pacific Northwest, Group, Sept/Dec 2024, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, OR 
Seattle Art Fair, July 2024
TREE, June 2019, Vashon Center for the Arts, Vashon WA
 Uses of History, Group, June 2019, guest curated by Melissa Feldman, studio e, Seattle WA
 1 ROOM, Group, August 2018, A special exhibition in conjunction with the Seattle Art Fair
 
PRESS
The Seattle Times, “Seattle artist displays intricate glasswork, medieval techniques” By Gayle Clemans, February 6, 2025
King 5, New Day Northwest with Nancy Guppy, February 27, 2025
Seattle Channel, Art Zone: Cappy Thompson, visual artist, by Pete Cassam and Annabel Cassam, November 9, 2023

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS & LARGE SCALE WORKS︎

VIEW SELECT VITREOUS ENAMEL REV-PAINTINGS︎
VIEW SELECT VITREOUS ENAMEL REV-PAINTED VESSELS︎
VIEW WHEEL ENGRAVED BLOWN GLASS VESSELS︎
b. Alexandria, VA; Lives and works in Seattle, WA

Thompson is a devotee of the pre-modern both in terms of her imagery and use of medieval techniques such as enamel painted and wheel-engraved glass. While visionary and sacred scenes from diverse cultures inspire Thompson's imagery, so does contemporary experience. The enamel-on-glass painting Cosmic Woman (2018), for example, offers a female rendition of the ancient Jainian personification of the cosmos.  Elsewhere, stylized giant tulips are borrowed from Pennsylvania Dutch lace and Fraktur drawing, and feather-clad harpies hail from Greek mythology and Russian folk art alike.  The reverse-painted Verdant Black Madonna (2015) proffers a folk rendition of the Polish Gothic dark-skinned figure thought to be a pagan earth goddess rechristened as the Virgin Mary. Thompson builds on accumulated and coinciding histories such as these, highlighting connections among cultures and peoples across time and globe.  

—Melissa E Feldman



Cappy Thompson, Feeling of Friendship, 2025, Vitreous enamel reverse painted on mouth blown glass, mounted over brushed aluminum and wood panel, 25 ¼ x 30 x 2 ½ in. Cappy Thompson, Journey, 2017, Vitreous enamel reverse painted on mouth blown glass, mounted over brushed aluminum and wood panel, 25 ¼ x 37 ¾ x 2 ½ in. Cappy Thompson, Gardener, 2023, Vitreous enamel reverse painted on mouth blown glass, mounted over brushed aluminum and wood panel, 26 x 37 ¾ x 2 ½ in. Cappy Thompson, Guide, 2022, Vitreous enamel reverse painted on mouth blown glass, mounted over brushed aluminum and wood panel, 24 ¾ x 35 ¼ x 2 ½ in. Cappy Thompson, Blue Boy, 2013, Vitreous enamels reverse-painted on blown glass, 17 ½ x 9 x 5 ½ in. Cappy Thompson, Moon, 2013, Vitreous enamels reverse-painted on blown glass, 16 x 9 x 6 in. Cappy Thompson, Guardian Angels, 2015, vitreous enamels reverse painted on blown glass, 15 ½ x 11 ½ x 5 ½ in. Cappy Thompson, Unicorns and Riders, 2013, Vitreous enamels reverse-painted on blown glass, 16 x 11 ½ x 5 in. Cappy Thompson, Betrothed (Couple), 2025, Wheel engraved blown glass, 9 ¼ x 8 ¼ x 2 ½ in. Cappy Thompson, Dandelion, 2013, Wheel engraved blown glass, 13 x 13 x 6 ¼ in. Cappy Thompson, Tiger, 2015, wheel engraved glass, 7 ½ x 8 x 4 ½ in. Cappy Thompson, Two Birds, 2025, Wheel engraved blown glass, 6 ⅜ x 6 ¾ x 3 in.