Bob Landström is an interdisciplinary artist based in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, whose work explores how reality takes material form.

Moving between painting, sculpture, sound, and video, he creates works that translate invisible forces into physical experience. He is known for using pigmented volcanic rock as a primary painting medium, producing distinctive textured surfaces with trowels, knives, nails, and custom-built tools. His broader practice incorporates field recordings of electromagnetic static and radio devices he builds or modifies, often extending into kinetic and spatial projects.

Landström is preoccupied with how reality comes into being — where it originates, and the role of perception in its formation.

His work asks how energy becomes material presence. Across painting, sculpture, sound, and video, he explores this condition of becoming. Some works unfold as intimate objects. Others expand into experiential encounters that engage the viewer as a participant.

Electromagnetic static is a recurring point of departure. Treated as both signal and metaphor, it suggests a state of potential before form settles. Through field recordings of radio interference and electronic noise, he translates wave-based phenomena into light, motion, and mechanical vibration. Radio devices, built or modified, operate within the work as generators and receivers of unstable transmissions.

Sound. Light. Matter. These are the primary phonetics of Landström’s artistic language. Volcanic rock appears throughout his paintings and sculptural forms, carrying traces of geological time and elemental transformation.  By placing such materials in dialogue with energetic systems, reality is explored as dynamic — shaped through interaction, perception, and continual formation.

The work creates moments in which viewers sense their role in this unfolding, encountering reality not as fixed, but as something emerging around and through them.