Andy T's Urban Vision is the first mid-career retrospective of Detroit-based installation artist Andrew W. Thompson, popularly known as “Andy T.” As a sculptor, Thompson gives new life to discarded objects such as tires, grocery bags, plastic bottles, and mailing envelopes, thereby integrating questions of environmental, social, and economic sustainability into the context of art. Treating art as a “fundamental life-organizing principle,” the artist observes, researches, and interprets how everyday items circulate, shape, and express social beliefs and cultural customs.

Image: 𝑈𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑙𝑒𝑑: 𝐴𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑛 𝐴𝑟𝑡 𝐶𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟, Andrew W. Thompson, inkjet print, 2012.