TRISTRAM LANSDOWNE

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.

Thematically unstable, the works in this exhibition juxtapose methodologies from the Western art historical canon with pictorial structures of our daily environment, creating a series of vitrine-like spaces that shift genres and subjects repeatedly. Spartan still lifes, aerial images, hyperextended panoramas, video game motifs and meticulously transcribed historical paintings all vie for attention, one becoming the threshold to the next. Through tactile juxtapositions and carefully calibrated tensions between surface and volume, flatness and depth, subject and frame, these works embrace the dysfunction that occurs as we consider something outside of its original state, while at the same time seeking to reconcile it into some kind of order.