Richard Quittenton is a 28 year old Metis artist who makes digital collages. His work combines photographs, 3D elements, and digital paint. Born in Toronto, Richard attained a bachelors in History and Theology from the University of Toronto in 2015. He received his Masters of Architecture in December of 2018 from The School of Architecture at Taliesin. During his time in school and since graduation, Richard has lived and worked in New York City, Rotterdam, Shenzhen, Basel, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Scottsdale and Spring Green. After returning home because of the pandemic, Richard has been developing his body of work to draw on the experience of these cities.
In graduate school, Richard explored the digital sphere and its proclivity for interaction with architecture, the user, and the city, via images. This fascination stems from his thesis, which questioned the ways the natural world is viewed and experienced via the internet. This lens is the foundation for all of his projects. The basic question is: how does the digital sphere interact with, alter, sample, remix, screen, filter, and change the ‘real world’? More recently, Richard is developing two bodies of work: painted collages that refract urban situations; and painted renderings that act as digital reinterpretations of the cities he has lived in.
Richard works 100% with digital media. He draws from three main techniques: photobashing, matte painting, and kitbashing. Fruits from all three techniques are then integrated to form the final piece.
Richard currently lives in Toronto.

Richard Quittenton is a 28 year old Metis artist who makes digital collages. His work combines photographs, 3D elements, and digital paint. Born in Toronto, Richard attained a bachelors in History and Theology from the University of Toronto in 2015. He received his Masters of Architecture in December of 2018 from The School of Architecture at Taliesin. During his time in school and since graduation, Richard has lived and worked in New York City, Rotterdam, Shenzhen, Basel, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Scottsdale and Spring Green. After returning home because of the pandemic, Richard has been developing his body of work to draw on the experience of these cities.
In graduate school, Richard explored the digital sphere and its proclivity for interaction with architecture, the user, and the city, via images. This fascination stems from his thesis, which questioned the ways the natural world is viewed and experienced via the internet. This lens is the foundation for all of his projects. The basic question is: how does the digital sphere interact with, alter, sample, remix, screen, filter, and change the ‘real world’? More recently, Richard is developing two bodies of work: painted collages that refract urban situations; and painted renderings that act as digital reinterpretations of the cities he has lived in.
Richard works 100% with digital media. He draws from three main techniques: photobashing, matte painting, and kitbashing. Fruits from all three techniques are then integrated to form the final piece.
Richard currently lives in Toronto.

I’m fascinated by the act of collage. Originally in architecture, the idea of not taking a tabula rasa approach but instead working with the context of the site as it is. Using the preexisting parts and elements of the site to inform architectural decisions. This is collage. As an operation then, collaging can be applied to my works of art. Instead of searching for fresh ideas to translate onto a blank canvas, I start with a canvas already populated with found objects. I curate which objects start off together and then I begin my work. Dropping, cutting, blending and painting these objects. The end result is a piece in which new relationships and dynamics have been formed via the utilization of preexisting visual media.

I’m fascinated by the act of collage. Originally in architecture, the idea of not taking a tabula rasa approach but instead working with the context of the site as it is. Using the preexisting parts and elements of the site to inform architectural decisions. This is collage. As an operation then, collaging can be applied to my works of art. Instead of searching for fresh ideas to translate onto a blank canvas, I start with a canvas already populated with found objects. I curate which objects start off together and then I begin my work. Dropping, cutting, blending and painting these objects. The end result is a piece in which new relationships and dynamics have been formed via the utilization of preexisting visual media.