Tristram lansdowne biography

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Artist Bio. Tristram Lansdowne was born in 1983 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

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TRISTRAM LANSDOWNE

b. 1983, Victoria, British Colombia
Lives and works in Toronto

BIOGRAPHY

Tristram Lansdowne's practice explores organised space's historical and cultural representations, considering how architecture is used to express desire and control. His recent work examines the psycho-spatial content of the contemporary modernist home, paying particular attention to the effects of globalised design culture and digital rendering technologies. Detailed watercolours, drawings, sculptures and printmaking explore the home's construction as an image, tugging at the deception of the surface by re-coding digital processes through the handmade. Reversals of two- and three-dimensional forms coupled with shifts in perspective destabilise the viewer's position, reinscribing the aesthetics of domestic space and asking for whom, if anyone, this ideal home is intended.

Lansdowne’s work has been included in several solo exhibitions at Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montréal (2021/2019/2017); Galerie Nicolas Robert, Toronto (2019); Wil Kucey Gallery, Toronto (2016); LE Gallery,

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Green cauliflower-textured growths, transparent oval domes, sharp and pointed projections of stone – these are some of the features that make up the futuristic islands in the art of New York-based Canadian artist Tristram Lansdowne. Working across painting, installation and print, Tristram mainly focusses on the histories of landscape and architecture – particularly utopian trends and modernist design.

In his paintings, the elements of nature and man-made structures are easily fused. The dreamy scenery that emerges belongs to a sci-fi novel or movie.

Interestingly, the works could indicate either of these two possibilities: human cities have expanded so much that they have encroached on the last remaining tracts of pure nature or urban dwellers have become so ecologically conscious that they have found ways to bring pure nature back to their artificially constructed habitats. We have invaded mountains and rivers in our greed or have happily surrendered to them, allowing them to shape our existence. Negative or positive in their expression, the pictures remain fasci

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Tristram Lansdowne (b. 1983, Victoria, BC) is a visual artist whose work primarily engages in the historical and cultural representation of organized space and architecture. Thematically, Lansdowne explores the various traditions of framing within the art historical canon – from the illusionism found in the murals of Pompeii, the realism of Flemish Renaissance painting, the techniques of American neoclassicism, and finally the pictorial depth of modern art. The trompe-l’oeil employed in Jan van Eyck’s altarpieces, specifically the renderings of statuary in recessed framed spaces, were particularly important to Lansdowne. 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. The resulting paintings depict ambiguous and illusory spaces that are amalgamations of history, perspective, lighting, and dimensionality.

He received an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2016 and a BFA from the Ontario College of Art and