REWRITE REALITY exhibition artist | Trevor Coopersmith
I’m interested in exploring subcultures, indigenous cultures and countercultures, alongside a personal connection to the landscape, organic matter and entanglements of consciousness amid precarious times.
My work approaches the painting world in a phenomenological way. Shifts of scale, ambiguity, and temporality are central themes of my work. I’m interested in having viewers explore the canvas as if traversing through a landscape. Earth excavations and emptiness, natural and artificial, built landscape and natural landscape, alienation and existential strangeness are dualities I wish to investigate in my practice. This is in response to living in the age of the Anthropocene and environmental precarity.
My recent work presents a series of concentric mushroom gills representing and translating a personal experience; 8 days and 115 miles by skateboard across central California to question methodologies of progress. Collectively, how can we progress beyond calamity and rewrite a possible rebirth of coexistence in this reality?
Trevor Coopersmith is an interdisciplinary artist from San Diego, CA. Trevor received a Bachelor’s in Art from the University of California, Santa Barbara and was recently accepted to the University of London, Goldsmiths MFA program. Coopersmith has sold to private collections across the globe, completed murals, founded the Urban Art Scholarship Foundation and exhibited internationally/ online.
