Variations on Urban Planning

Alex R.M. Thompson, From Memory (detail). 2018, intaglio, ink and pen monoprint, 10.5” x 14”.

Alex R.M. Thompson, From Memory. 2018, intaglio, ink and pen monoprint, 10.5” x 14”.

Alex R.M. Thompson, From Memory. 2018, intaglio, ink and pen monoprint, 10.5” x 14”.

Alex R.M. Thompson, From Memory (detail). 2018, intaglio, ink and pen monoprint, 10.5” x 14”.

Alex R.M. Thompson, From Memory (detail). 2018, intaglio, ink and pen monoprint, 10.5” x 14”.


Project Space
Variations on Urban Planning
Alex R.M. Thompson
September 14, 2018 – October 13, 2018

Variations on Urban Planning features print-based work by Alex R.M. Thompson. The work aims to unpack the process of contemporary city building, drawing on the order/disorder of the construction site as its primary motif. The work deconstructs the familiar ubiquity of urban building, removing the necessary (and numerous) instruments of development from their regular contexts and orientations. Presented as a vast network of small components, each piece gestures towards the constant and overwhelming change in the city’s social structure, and the sense of alienation that this state can bring.

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Alex R.M. Thompson is a Toronto-based artist and printmaker, originally from Brantford, Ontario. He studied printmaking at the Ontario College of Art and Design University, where he was awarded the medal in his program upon graduation. He has exhibited at The Power Plant, Art Toronto, Nuit Blanche, The Artist Project, and Abbozzo Gallery in Toronto, along with Studio Sixty Six in Ottawa and Glenhyrst Art Gallery in Brantford. He also works as a technical assistant in the Printmaking department at OCADU.