American visual artist and designer Trey Hurst portrays his relationship with the past and the reliability of our memory through a series of ink drawings which will be exhibited during "Misremembered But Not Forgotten" at RCB Galleria 4 of River City Bangkok, Charoen Krung 24, from tomorrow to Aug 21.
For this third solo show, he uses ghostly forms and fluid patterns to articulate his own distorted memories of his home in Southern Louisiana. Within these dense ink compositions are motifs derived from the places and people of childhood in the state.
His broad flowers of the Southern Magnolia tree are rendered as simple twists and curves in black ink to symbolise lost loved ones while references to a sprawling family are drawn as clusters of long slow brushwork that coalesce into patterns full of energy and movement.
Trey muses on the unreliability of memory through simple and repetitive brushstrokes, spectral figures, and expanses of thinly layered paint rendered on raw canvas.
An artwork by Trey Hurst. (Photo courtesy of River City Bangkok)
He takes inspiration from the constant making and remaking of patterns in our built environment. The lines and grids of urban infrastructure and the ways in which our man-made structures interact with nature inform his approach to drawing and painting.
His abstract works are also influenced by the history and tradition of patterns in textile design where woven, printed, tufted and dyed patterns in fabrics and rugs are mechanisms for storytelling and cultural identification.
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