Luis De Jesus Los Angeles is pleased to announce Tristram Lansdowne: Burrito Planet, the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition is on view in Gallery 2 from September 14 through October 26, 2024. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, September 21st, from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm.
Tristram Lansdowne is known for his deft use of watercolor and works that center on how representational space is deployed in various fields including painting, landscape and architecture. Burrito Planet, named after a long-closed halal burrito restaurant in Toronto, embraces ambiguity and continues the artist’s strategic use of successive framing to meld image genres, with one frame opening a window to the next. In this series, Lansdowne examines the painterly relationship between surface and volume as they pertain to our visual world. He approaches the combination of images intuitively, guided by a strategy of loose association and visual rhymes, focusing on tactile and textural connections while avoiding any symbolic intent.
Thematically unstable, Lansdowne juxtaposes methodologies from the Western art historical canon with pictorial structures of our daily environment. By painting classical landscapes with digital computer designs that break the frame (for example, a landscape that wraps around in all four directions), he plays with the illusion of depth to create psychological space and explores how we consume images, asking the viewer: what might an Italian Renaissance painting have in common with the design on your laptop. Combining these elements, he welcomes the dysfunction that occurs as we consider something outside of its original state, while seeking to reconcile order.
Tristram Lansdowne (b. 1983, Victoria, BC) received an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2016 and a BFA from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 2007. Recent solo and group exhibitions include, Digressions, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Bellyache, CHART Gallery, New York, C’était possible, Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides, Saint-Jérôme, Québec, Canada; Vitrine and Sympathies, at Galerie Nicolas Robert, Toronto, ON, Canada; Lines in the Snow: Contemporary Canadian Drawing, New Art Projects, London, UK; and I swear you never slept at night, Centre Space, Toronto, ON, Canada. His work has also been included in Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, ON; Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham UK; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK; Southern Alberta Gallery, Lethbridge, AB; Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA; Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, ON; among others. His work can be found in various public collections including the National Gallery of Canada, Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, the Microsoft Corporate Collection, among others. Lansdowne lives and works in Toronto, and is currently an artist-in-residence at the Roswell Artist in Residence Program, in Roswell, NM.
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