David Trautrimas

David Trautrimas explores contemporary cultural phenomena in a multi-disciplinary practice that employs laser-cut acrylic assemblage, photography, sculpture, and printmaking.  Oscillating between abstracted and representational renderings of popular icons, everyday objects, and architectural spaces, his artistic practice investigates those items and experiences through which daily life is lived.

David first began working with print during his undergraduate education at OCAD University, where he focused his printmaking practice on the creation of multiple layer silkscreen works. Since then, he has continued working in the silkscreen medium, as demonstrated in his most recent series of prints,A Recollection of Spoils (2020-21), and experimented with other practices such as development of laser-cut etching and laser-cut silkscreen techniques that culminated in creation of an earlier body of work, A Developing Null (2019).

David Trautrimas has widely exhibited his work in Canada and internationally in the United States, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, and Australia. Recent presentations include solo-exhibitions at Angell Gallery (Toronto), Assembly Gallery (Hamilton) and Zalucky Contemporary (Toronto), while his work has also been included in group exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Gardiner Museum (Toronto), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Toronto), and the Harbour Front Centre (Toronto) among others. David currently lives and works in Hamilton, ON.