Bob Landström is a matter painter working in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He studied fine art at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and at the School of the Museum of Fine Art at Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts. He is best known for using the Earth as his painting medium, and in particular, pigmented volcanic rock through processes uniquely his own.

Landström often works in the conceptual areas where science and art meet, where physics and metaphysics overlap. His images are assemblages and dis-assemblages of totem animals, letters and word fragments, diagrams, symbols, and glyphs (some invented and others drawn from research). The surfaces of his paintings are a testament to his arresting style, literally gritty and bristling across the canvases by way of trowels, knives, nails, and invented tools.

When an idea or concept captures his attention, Landström jumps into the rabbit hole with a pick and a shovel. He will spend months reading, researching, and experimenting with the concept until a new body of work emerges.

In a surprising development for an artist holding materiality dear to the heart, Landström is now experimenting with fully digital art forms. Following nearly twelve months of investigations into the metaphorical dimensions of electromagnetic static, the artist is stretching his oeuvre beyond physical painting and into the native dimensions of his subject matter itself.