Greg Thompson Fine Art proudly presents the Best of the South

North Little Rock, AR – On Friday, September 18th from 5-8 pm, Greg Thompson Fine Art will open its annual exhibition entitled Best of the South in conjunction with 3rd Friday Night Art Walk in the Argenta Arts District of North Little Rock and the ACANSAS Arts Festival. The show will run till Saturday, November 14, 2015.

This ground breaking exhibition will feature work by some of the most important Southern artists both past and present in the Southern art genre: Works by 20th Century masters: Walter Anderson, Dusti Bongé, Carroll Cloar, Theora Hamblett, Clementine Hunter, Ida Kohlmeyer and Andrew Bucci will hang alongside their contemporary counterparts of the 21st Century: John Alexander, Gay Bechtelheimer, William Dunlap, John Ellis, Pinkney Herbert, Robyn Horn, Richard Jolley, Dolores Justus, Wolf Kahn, Sammy Peters, Edward Rice, Kendall Stallings, Rebecca Thompson, Glennray Tutor and Donald Roller Wilson. Come in and see this exciting exhibition highlighting the top Southern artists from yesterday and today!

Greg Thompson Fine Art, established in 1995 as a private art consulting and art dealership, opened its public gallery space in June 2009. It is located at 429 Main Street in the historic Argenta area of North Little Rock that is quickly becoming the ‘arts district’ for Central Arkansas. The gallery is on the second floor of a renovated historic building built in 1895 known as the Faucette Building and has over 3,000 square feet of public and private viewing space. Thompson spent several years designing his new space to look, feel and operate with the integrity and quality of galleries in New York, Chicago and Paris. It boasts 18-foot ceilings, original hardwood floors, and clean white walls. “There is nothing like it in the state of Arkansas and it has becoming a destination gallery for the South.” Thompson says. The gallery’s focus is on important Southern Regional artists, established artists and important Modern Masters from the 19th and 20th Century.

Greg Thompson Fine Art has consistently received awards for the Best Gallery in Arkansas from the readers of AY Magazine, Soiree magazine and the Arkansas Times and has also been featured prominently in the New York Times, Garden & Gun, ArtNews, Art In America and Arkansas Life.

"At this gallery you'll find a terrific collection of Southern regionalists work."
- New York Times

"In the 20 years since Thompson went into business as an art dealer, he's built a reputation as one of the premier gallery owners in the South."
- Arkansas Life

“You could fill a text book on twentieth-century Southern art with the work on display at Greg Thompson Fine Art.”
-Garden & Gun Magazine