FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 2021
Bob Landström’s exhibition, Stray The Course, explores Haute Pâte through volcanic rock & metaphysical abstraction
Artist Bob Landström’s exhibition, Stray The Course, debuts at The White Room Gallery in The Hamptons
The Hamptons, New York – Artist Bob Landström, who works primarily with pigmented igneous rock, debuts for the first time at The White Room Gallery in The Hamptons with his exhibition Stray The Course.
With backgrounds in both fine art and engineering, Landström experimented with igneous rock until he arrived at his own version of Haute Pâte (matter painting). As igneous rock takes time to cure on canvas, like a Polaroid, Landström must look beyond the present to how something will eventually turn out. In the same way, his work is about disengaging the ways we perceive and associate symbols, lyrics, formulas, mathematics, mysticism—anything normally ascribed to belief systems—in order to reveal a core human experience akin to the natural elements he uses in his paintings.
Stray The Course is a collection of Landström’s signature textural paintings, all made with crushed and pigmented igneous rock and inspired by esoteric studies and metaphysics. These paintings constitute what the artist likens to “maps”, with textures, scratches, hills, and valleys—all which create surfaces that allow viewers to contemplate, get lost in, and where symbols, formulae, and words offer rest stops along the way.
According to co-owners / co-directors Andrea McCafferty and Kat O’Neill, Stray The Course revels in “a creative journey filled with trials and errors and all kinds of things that can take you off the course. But it is in that straying where artists find the magic, that unique look that becomes their signature, their voice. This exhibition celebrates the stray.”
Details
The exhibition will run August 20, 2021 – September 19, 2021
The opening reception will be held Wednesday, August 25, 5:00 – 7:00 PM EST.
2415 Main Street
Bridgehampton, NY 11932
About Bob Landström
Bob Landström is an artist who primarily works with crushed, pigmented volcanic rock. His abstract paintings, with their highly granulated texture and color combinations only achieved through such a medium, reconsider our relationship with meaning by eliciting the iconography of ancient languages, science, religions, and mysticism.
Born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, Landström studied fine art by invitation at Carnegie-Mellon University. He later continued his fine art education at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts. Landström also earned a Bachelor and Master of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering.
Landström’s work has exhibited extensively and can be found in public, private, and corporate collections around the world. He is the winner of the 1993 SOHO International Competition in New York, the 1994 and 2002 Open Studios National Competition, and other awards. When not in the studio, Landström spends considerable time abroad and has visited archeological sites across the world, which inform his studies and artistic practice.
Landström currently lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia.
Website: www.boblandstrom.com
Instagram: @boblandstrom
