David Trautrimas Negotiates the Hyper-real and the Unreal

(above: David Trautrimas, "The Cooler Factory";

right: 'The Typewriter Factory")

With this posting I introduce readers to an artist, David Trautrimas, whose work the gallery carries courtesy of Trautrimas' representing Toronto gallery, LE Gallery. It is relatively rare for such an arrangement within the same city but in this case it is the result of our joint enthusiasm for Trautrimas' works that combine visual and conceptual playfulness with a novel employment of photography . Many of his works disassemble everyday objects into their component parts and then rescales and reconstitutes them into building-like industrial structures that we are encouraged to imagine as the progenitors of the objects. A review by David Jager in NOW provides a good perspective on Trautrimas' work.

Other works are wonderfully whimsical fantasies constructed from the integration and juxtaposition of objects whose real-life scale is inverted. Below are "Despite the great sausages no one ever came to Doug's BBQ" and "You can't get blood from a stone but you can get juice from a brick."

Stay tuned for notice of Trautrimas' next show, opening September 24 at LE Gallery.