Post by joshualinergallery on Feb 2, 2010 11:17:49 GMT -8
Our next shows include a new solo exhibit from Canadian artist Tristram Lansdowne. This is his first solo show in the U.S.
Sample images and press release attached below.
Please contact the gallery if you would like to receive the preview for this show.
Joshua Liner Gallery is pleased to present Refuge, an exhibition of new paintings in watercolor by the Canadian artist Tristram Lansdowne. This is Lansdowne’s first solo show with the gallery.
Lansdowne’s paintings of architectural ruins focus on themes of permanence, decay, and function inherent in constructed environments. Depicted with the delicacy of Roman frescoes after millennia of wear, these palimpsests carry traces of past lives, such as weathered billboards, chipped paint, graffiti, political campaign posters, or electrical wiring. The lightness of Lansdowne’s watercolors imbues these glimpses into the ravages of time with a gentle patina. Yet there’s ambiguity in his approach. An idealistic view of the past is juxtaposed with the emotional vacancy of urban decay, a circumspect view of human progress in which outmoded architectural ideas mix with discarded pieces of the landscape.
In this new suite of fifteen medium- to large-sized works on paper, Lansdowne depicts decrepit houses, buildings, and barns atop subterranean layers of disparate, sometimes unrelated material and mysterious cavities. These incongruous structures include Sub Comfort, a rickety house with TV and mattress in the basement. In The Bilder, a majestic old barn sits atop the skeletal frame of a wooden galleon. Brush Park situates a boarded-up and crumbling brick edifice above a subterranean cave with access to a body of water. Painted in cross-section like natural history specimens—each building and its lower regions isolated against a pristine field of white paperthese structures have the feel of old teeth, worn down with the rotting network of root, gum, and bone exposed. Their clinical beauty and uncanny combinations make their poignancy not only palatable but also strangely beguiling.
The Bilder
Watercolor on paper
2009
40 x 48 in.
Brush Park
Watercolor on paper
2009
50 x 40 in.
Sample images and press release attached below.
Please contact the gallery if you would like to receive the preview for this show.
Joshua Liner Gallery is pleased to present Refuge, an exhibition of new paintings in watercolor by the Canadian artist Tristram Lansdowne. This is Lansdowne’s first solo show with the gallery.
Lansdowne’s paintings of architectural ruins focus on themes of permanence, decay, and function inherent in constructed environments. Depicted with the delicacy of Roman frescoes after millennia of wear, these palimpsests carry traces of past lives, such as weathered billboards, chipped paint, graffiti, political campaign posters, or electrical wiring. The lightness of Lansdowne’s watercolors imbues these glimpses into the ravages of time with a gentle patina. Yet there’s ambiguity in his approach. An idealistic view of the past is juxtaposed with the emotional vacancy of urban decay, a circumspect view of human progress in which outmoded architectural ideas mix with discarded pieces of the landscape.
In this new suite of fifteen medium- to large-sized works on paper, Lansdowne depicts decrepit houses, buildings, and barns atop subterranean layers of disparate, sometimes unrelated material and mysterious cavities. These incongruous structures include Sub Comfort, a rickety house with TV and mattress in the basement. In The Bilder, a majestic old barn sits atop the skeletal frame of a wooden galleon. Brush Park situates a boarded-up and crumbling brick edifice above a subterranean cave with access to a body of water. Painted in cross-section like natural history specimens—each building and its lower regions isolated against a pristine field of white paperthese structures have the feel of old teeth, worn down with the rotting network of root, gum, and bone exposed. Their clinical beauty and uncanny combinations make their poignancy not only palatable but also strangely beguiling.
The Bilder
Watercolor on paper
2009
40 x 48 in.
Brush Park
Watercolor on paper
2009
50 x 40 in.
