David Trautrimas

Creating fantastical structures from commonplace appliances, Toronto based photographer David Trautrimas unlocks the mind from a state of static recognition as his photographic compositions reveal an alternative take on architecture & landscape. His digital constructions of buildings made from abject and dismantled housewares at once announce the limits of industrial proliferation as they bring levity to the possibility of recycled innovation.
Trautrimas's fictitious documentation of buildings that never were glean the look of a post apocalyptic world where larger than life structures loom over the surrounding landscape, but they also breath fresh air into architecture's infinite promise of pushing the boundaries of physics in order to renovate the way we live. Safe to say, Trautrimas's work serves as both catalyst for creativity as it does cautionary tale for what we ultimately do with it.
His work has appeared in both group and solo exhibitions around the world, including Toronto's LE Gallery, The Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art, Brooklyn's KlompChing Gallery, the Photo Eye Gallery in Santa Fe, Oakland's Johannson Projects, DNJ Gallery in Los Angles California, Queensland Center for Photography Australia, and Eckhart Gal...

education
Certified Apple Desktop Technician - June 2004
AOCAD diploma with honors, OCAD - June 2003
Audio Visual Multi-Media Diploma, Fanshawe College - June 1998

exhibitions - solo
The Spyfrost Project at DNJ Gallery Los Angeles California - September 2010
The Spyfrost Project at Eckhart Gallery The Hague Netherlands - May 2010
The Spyfrost Project at LE Gallery Toronto Canada - May 2010
Habitat Machines at PhotoEye Gallery Santa Fe U.S.A - July 2009
Habitat Machines at LE Gallery Toronto - September 2008
Industrial Parkland at LE Gallery Toronto - March 2007
A Confederation of Alloys at LE Gallery Toronto - October 2005

exhibitions - select group
LE7 at LE Gallery Toronto - February 2011
The Robert McLaughlin RMG Exposed Photography Auction - November 2010
Art with heart auction for Casey House Toronto - October 2010
The Maker Group Show at LE Gallery Toronto - October 2010
Ottawa Photography Festival Canada Council ArtBank exhibition - September 2010
Empire of Dreams Group Exhibition at MOCCA Toronto Canada - June 2010
Brave New World at The Queensland Center for Photography Brisbane Australia - April 2010
Gallery Artists Group Show at Photoeye Gallery Santa Fe U.S.A - February to May 2010
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