Erik Lindman & Augustus Thompson Slabs and Boards

Almine Rech Tribeca is pleased to announce a two-person exhibition by artists Erik Lindman and Augustus Thompson, on view from September 18 to October 25, 2025.

"My work often uses anonymous found surfaces as compositional elements: found sheets of painted luan, fragments of plastic armatures, or marred shards of stainless steel are joined, glued, and screwed together, initiating a cascade of decisions that ultimately articulate value and attention.

Cropping, awareness of scale and use of negative space combine with the absorbency, luminosity and superficial variation of these surfaces. All of this activity opens a space within the world around me, specifically focusing attention on painting’s cultural ramifications and the plain facts of their existence. I continually attempt to construct painting anew, calling attention to the reality that surface is always a coming together of materials made to adhere to each other. In this same way, my sculpture is an extension of this practice, but unlike the paintings, they investigate a sequential series of viewpoints, each dissimilar and separate from the next.

Instead of assuming a wholly autobiographical stance, my presence as an artist serves as a conduit through which each individual viewer is invited to participate in the shared activity of remaking our world, here and now, out of the things that exist around and within us."
— Erik Lindman

Augustus Thompson’s work traverses painting, printmaking, sculpture and sound, often meshed together in experimental exhibition environments he cites as relational theater. His idiosyncratic practice notes a strategy of transference and chance inherent to printmaking and a ritualized emphasis on the set up of formal and cultural references adapted for each particular project or environment. Thompson finds terrain to fabricate the internal self, turning painting into a self relating machine.

Augustus Thompson (b.1985 Richlands, Va) lives and works in northern New Mexico. Thompson has had solo exhibitions at Almine Rech, London; White Cube, London; Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Frankfurt Am Main, Berlin; Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles. His work has been shown in group exhibitions in institutions such as the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, BE; Museo Pino Pascali, IT; and the Zabludowicz Collection, London; among others.

— A full press release by Melissa Bianca Amore, Art Critic, Philosopher, Curator, will follow.