Ian Trout

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, USA

Artist statement

Ian Trout (b. 1983) is a Mexican-American artist based in Los Angeles. Employing methods of appropriation and collage, his practice considers US austerity and the structural supports that sustain it. His work in painting, drawing and video reconfigures politically charged subjects of distinctly American iconography.

Artwork

• General Dynamics Corporation logo with internal organs (2024 contributions to candidates: $2,09,741, to Leadership PACs: $810,055, to party committees: $410,556, to 527 committees: $96,636, to outside spending groups: $108,684; 2024 lobbying expenses: $12,210,00) , 2025. Acrylic, flashe, and graphite on canvas
• BAE Systems Inc. logo with internal organs (2024 contributions to candidates: $997,690, to Leadership PACs: $454,616, to party committees: $209,973, to 527 committees: $3,874, to outside spending groups: $32,157; 2024 lobbying expenses: $4,630,000), 2025. Acrylic, flashe, and graphite on canvas
• The Boeing Company logo section with internal organs, eyeball and bones (2024 contributions to candidates: $3,584,472, to Leadership PACs: $636,433, to party committees: $1,416,761, to 527 committees: $51,590, to outside spending groups: $132,585; 2024 lobbying expenses: $11,930,000), 2025. Acrylic, flashe, and graphite on canvas
• DNP, 2024. Single channel video, color, sound
• Lawofficer.com, July 7, 2016 / The Punisher, Issue 13, 2019, 2022. Archival pigment prints
• Motorcycle Police (Upside Down), 2022. Acrylic, flashe, and pencil on canvas with aluminum hardware
• 1968, The American Petroleum Institute; Los Angeles Times, September 17, 2023, 2023. Colored pencil on paper
• (BP) with digestive system and human internal organ (2018 contributions to candidates: $540,918, to Leadership PACs: $20,650, to parties: $33,412, to 527 committees: $3,780, to outside spending groups: $1,568) , 2019. Acrylic, flashe, and graphite on canvas
• (US Bancorp) with digestive system (2018 contributions to candidates: $684,563, to Leadership PACs: $213,062, contributions to parties: $202,446, to 527 committees: $2,911, to outside spending groups: $8,886), 2019. Acrylic, flashe, and graphite on canvas
• Second Amendment Zombie, 2022. Graphite on paper
• Second Amendment Zombie, 2022. Graphite on paper
• The number of mass killings with guns each year 2006-2023 (Second Amendment Zombie), 2024. Two color screenprint on paper
• Excerpt from an article with stock image, "Body camera footage shows deputy fatally shooting woman", Los Angeles Times, December 2023, 2024. Colored pencil on paper
• 1968 (The Gun In America), 2020. Acrylic and pencil on canvas
• Suprematist Composition in Red and Black with Political Cartoons [Amplifiers] (After Kazimir Malevich, Painterly Realism: Boy with a Knapsack-Color Masses in the Fourth Dimension, 1915; “Corporate Speech”, Dan Wasserman, The Boston Globe, January 23, 2010; Matt Wuerker illustration from “Does Free Speech Exist?”, medium.com March 11, 2018), 2019. Archival pigment print with shaped matte
• Suprematist Composition in Black and Blue with Political Cartoons [Living Monster] (After Kazimir Malevich, Suprematist Painting: Black Rectangle, Blue Triangle,1915; “Corpenstein”, Matt Wuerker, movetoamend.org March 6, 2012; Brian Duffy illustration from “Tea Party vs. Occupy Wall Street”, Colorado Springs Independent November 3, 2011), 2019. Archival pigment print with shaped matte