Augustus Thompson’s realm of painting is interwoven with sound, performance, fashion, and installation work. Producing among other things, expressionist figurative paintings, geometric abstractions and photoshop arrangements of images printed out onto canvas, Thompson doesn’t necessarily work through or beyond any given medium, but with visual content in a variety of ways. His work's language counterpoises images drawn from consumer culture and those of the artist’s own invention. Representing a detachment from the conventions of painting, it offers surroundings of time and space that encourage the viewer to move around them. Disregarding any hierarchy of content, his practice also questions the ability and possibility for individual images to function today in a significant way.
Augustus Thompson
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Augustus Thompson, Pistil's Vernal Liberty (B), 2018
Cast aluminum, plaster, gypsum, ceramic, newsprint, bee’s wax, plastic, oil, enamel, spray paint, resin
10 x 10 x 7 1/2 inches
25,4 x 25,4 x 19,1 cm -
Augustus Thompson, Untitled, 2017
Poplar, pencil, ink, wood filler, danish oil
77,5 x 216,4 x 71 cm
30 1/2 x 852 x 28 inches -
Augustus Thompson, Untitled, 2017
Poplar, pencil, ink, wood filler, danish oil
77,5 x 216,4 x 71 cm
30 1/2 x 852 x 28 inches -
Augustus Thompson, The Late Brown Bobby, 2017
Monotype in oil on paper, mounted on aluminum
74,9 x 54,6 cm
29 1/2 x 215 inches -
Augustus Thompson, Untitled, 2017
Monotype in oil, ink and watercolor on paper
25,4 x 27,9 cm (framed)
10 x 11 inches (framed) -
Augustus Thompson, Untitled (Tire), 2017
Monotype in oil on paper, ink, mounted on aluminum
74,9 x 54,6 cm
29 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches -
Augustus Thompson, Spirit of ‘76, 2017
Oil, gesso and auto body filler on aluminum
121,9 x 243,8 cm
48 x 96 inches -
Augustus Thompson, With Bonnard, 2017
Monotype in oil on paper and auto body filler on aluminum
12,7 x 15,2 cm
5 x 6 inches -
Augustus Thompson, Untitled, 2017
Monotype in oil on paper mounted on aluminum
45,7 x 28 cm
18 x 11 inches -
Augustus Thompson, Untitled (In two parts), 2017
Acrylic on aluminum
45,7 x 81,3 cm
18 x 32 inches -
Augustus Thompson, Untitled, 2017
Oil, gesso and auto body filler on aluminum
45,7 x 152,4 cm
18 x 60 inches -
Augustus Thompson, Untitled, 2017
Oil on Aluminum
121,9 x 101,6 cm
48 x 40 inches -
Augustus Thompson, Untitled, 2017
Oil on aluminum
76,2 x 127 cm
30 x 50 inches -
Augustus Thompson, Untitled, 2017
Oil on aluminum
243,8 x 121,9 cm
96 x 48 inches -
Augustus Thompson, Untitled, 2017
Monotype in oil on paper
76,2 x 55,9 cm
30 x 22 inches -
Augustus Thompson, Backwards and Flat Earth I, 2017
Monotype in oil on paper
76,2 x 55,9 cm
30 x 22 inches -
Augustus Thompson, Backwards and Flat Earth III, 2017
Monotype in oil on paper
76,2 x 55,9 cm
30 x 22 inches -
Augustus Thompson, Backwards and Flat Earth II, 2017
Monotype in oil on paper
76,2 x 55,8 cm
30 x 22 inches -
Augustus Thompson, Untitled, 2017
Monotype in oil on paper
76,2 x 55,8 cm
30 x 22 inches -
Augustus Thompson, Untitled, 2017
Oil gesso and auto body filler on aluminum
152,4 x 30,5 x 1,3 cm
60 x 12 x 0 1/2 inches -
Augustus Thompson, Portrait of Beth Gibbons, 2017
Monotype in oil on paper
76,2 x 55,9 cm
30 x 22 inches -
Augustus Thompson, Downspout, 2014
Plaster, ceramic
10 x 32,5 x 5,5 cm
3 7/8 x 128 x 21 5/8 inches -
Augustus Thompson, Downspout, 2014
Plaster, ceramic
11 x 51 x 5,7 cm
4 3/8 x 20 1/8 x 22 1/2 inches -
Augustus Thompson, 878-0222, 2017
Bell Systems telephone, mp3 player, looped track, inkjet on paper with pencil
22 x 20 x 12,3 cm
8 5/8 x 7 7/8 x 48 3/8 inches -
Augustus Thompson, Behave your Ghost, 2017
Oil, spray paint, gesso and auto body filler on aluminum
106,7 x 129,5 cm
42 x 51 inches -
Augustus Thompson, Untitled (Car Interior), 2017
Monotype in oil on paper mounted on aluminum
75,8 x 57,1 cm
29 7/8 x 22 1/2 inches