Published by GRAY, Real Monsters in Bold Colors: Bob Thompson and Candida Alvarez is a fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by Hendrik Folkerts, curator of International Contemporary Art and Head of Exhibitions at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm. 

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Real Monsters in Bold Colors: Bob Thompson and Candida Alvarez is an exhibition exploring the interplay between two artists who have reshaped the discourse of figurative and abstract traditions. The exhibition brings together works by Bob Thompson, who exhibited with GRAY in the first decade of the gallery’s history, with new paintings by Candida Alvarez in the gallery’s first project with the artist. 

This exhibition highlights the two artists’ use of color and form as vehicles for storytelling, while underscoring their distinct approaches to rebuffing and reimagining the painting traditions that preceded them. Real Monsters in Bold Colors offers a view into the working practice of contemporary artist, Candida Alvarez, by way of the work of Bob Thompson. The exhibition reveals how artists find inspiration in their surroundings, often borrowing, expanding, and riffing off of historical sources as well as other artists, poets, and musicians to make their work.