From Jan. 23 through March 26, 2016, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art will present a twenty-year retrospective exhibition, Fragments in Time, for Willamette University’s art faculty member James B. Thompson, in the Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery.  

Fragment’s in Time explores the development of Thompson’s work during the past two decades, and features 179 artworks that range through 11 series, starting with Thompson’s “Certain Situations” from the mid-1990s, to his most recent “Forgotten Biography of Tools” from 2015. Utilizing various mediums — including mixed-media, painting, intaglio prints, embossed paper and kiln-formed glass — Thompson focuses on his various interests in ancient history, golf, changing landscapes, life in a French village and even hand tools, by incorporating  fragmented references to these in his art making process.