Marie Thibeault, Golden State, 2022, oil on canvas, 72 x 66 in

MARIE THIBEAULT: THE RADIANT RUPTURE

January 24 – April 11, 2026

Opening Reception: Saturday, Jan 24, 6 – 9pm

April 4, 1 – 3pm: Artist talk and guided walkthrough with guest Mirabel Wigon

See the exhibition online HERE

Palos Verdes Art Center is pleased to present The Radiant Rupture, a solo exhibition of new paintings by San Pedro, CA-based artist Marie Thibeault.

Over more than four decades, Marie Thibeault’s studio practice has been devoted to examining landscapes shaped by environmental strain. Her large-scale paintings fuse a complex abstract vocabulary with references to sites transformed by climate-related trauma. These compositions suggest conditions of rupture and instability, yet are held in suspension within luminous, atmospheric fields of color. Thibeault paints to bear witness and to cultivate empathy, making visible our deep interconnectedness with the natural world. Her work, poised between rupture and resilience, evokes the fragile equilibrium that defines this moment.

Thibeault received her MFA from UC Berkeley and is Professor Emerita at California State University, Long Beach. Her works have been exhibited across the United States and abroad in cities such as London, Tokyo, Seoul, and Düsseldorf, and are in the public collections of the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, CA, and the Oakland Museum of California in Oakland, CA, among others. Thibeault’s work has been reviewed in multiple publications, including L.A. Weekly, the San Francisco Chronicle, Artillery Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and Art in America.

This exhibition is made possible, in part, by generous support from–