Ben Langwieder is a painter interested in architecture, non-traditional architectural histories,
mythology, and personal encounters with the built environment. Through exploring what can
happen when these subjects intersect with the indefinite quality of paint, he hopes to reveal truths
about lived experience in the contemporary built environment, calling attention to the growing
rift he sees occuring between the people and spaces within it.
His paintings often incorporate ambiguous spatialities, perspectively precarious support
structures, and facsimiles of construction materials and decay. Using scrapes, textures, and other
visual references to buildings and spaces they convey the visceral yet quiet presence of
architecture in our lives. His subjects are adrift from their source, often folded into the material
reality of paint as much as they are representations. They can emerge or are chosen from
memories, his own photo archive, or as stumbled-upon-parts of larger research projects.
Ben Langwieder is a Montréal-based artist. He holds a BFA in Painting and Drawing with Great Distinction from Concordia University where he was awarded The Guido Molinari Prize in Studio Arts. He has exhibited work throughout Canada, including Montréal, Kitchener and Guelph.