Augustus Thompson’s recent paintings derive from Los Angeles industrial design and municipal signage. By creating an alphabet of forms and symbols from this everyday information, he explores ‘the limits of representational painting while celebrating the potential of a metaphysical practice’. In Honest (Black#3) (2014), a Koreatown bathroom door becomes an elemental signifier rendered in ink on canvas. Thompson’s paintings are often made in pairs so that their slight variations establish a pulse within seemingly austere conditions; profiles are painted, providing different perspectives throughout the exhibition space. During the run of the exhibition Thompson will also engage with Brian Eno’s, Music for White Cube from 1997, by way of a performance on 3 June 2014.

-White Cube

Image: © Augustus Thompson
Courtesy of the artist and White Cube