Every year, we become obsessed with a different word containing the prefix “post-”. “Post-truth” was the Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year in 2016, cynically and officially giving us a lexical tool for discussing the incomprehensible absurdity of the world post-Brexit, post-Trump. It is our linear temporal vision that makes “post” particularly heartbreaking (more so than “non” or “anti”): “post” doesn’t just mean that something is absent; it means that it is gone, behind us in time as we float helplessly forward without it. Even though “post-“ typically attaches itself to critical thought, it is the product of the same illusion of departure, of loss, that makes Americans long for the intangible “again” of Trump’s #MAGA...
Augustus Thompson
Winter '17
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London, Savile Row
January 24 — March 11, 2017 • London, Savile Row
January 24 — March 11, 2017 • London, Savile Row
January 24 — March 11, 2017 • London, Savile Row
January 24 — March 11, 2017 • London, Savile Row
January 24 — March 11, 2017 • London, Savile Row
January 24 — March 11, 2017 • London, Savile Row
January 24 — March 11, 2017 • London, Savile Row
January 24 — March 11, 2017 • London, Savile Row
January 24 — March 11, 2017 • London, Savile Row
January 24 — March 11, 2017 • London, Savile Row
January 24 — March 11, 2017 • London, Savile Row
January 24 — March 11, 2017 • London, Savile Row
January 24 — March 11, 2017 • London, Savile Row
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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, 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 (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, 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 (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 -
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, Spirit of ‘76, 2017
Oil, gesso and auto body filler on aluminum
121,9 x 243,8 cm
48 x 96 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
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, Untitled, 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 55,9 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 II, 2017
Monotype in oil on paper
76,2 x 55,8 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, Portrait of Beth Gibbons, 2017
Monotype in oil on paper
76,2 x 55,9 cm
30 x 22 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, 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, 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, Downspout, 2014
Plaster, ceramic
10 x 32,5 x 5,5 cm
3 7/8 x 128 x 21 5/8 inches
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Videos
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Augustus Thompson – Space Between Numbers