VISUAL ARTS + MUSEUMS

McMurtrey Gallery presents ArtHouston 2012: Trey Egan July 14, 2012 - August 11, 2012. Opening Reception TBA.

As part of the citywide ArtHouston event, McMurtrey Gallery is pleased to introduce a new contemporary Texas painter Trey Egan. An MFA graduate student at The University of North Texas, Trey Egan creates lush abstractions that encourage a re-evaluation of painting's visual language:

"My painting is engineered with the natural process of mark making, while layering and integrating an abstract visual language to build an atmospheric composition. The work derives from the primal and unconscious recognition of our surroundings, digesting and transferring this complexity into a cascade of recognizable but irrational space. This system constructs an expression that uses an innate sense of shape and spatial relationships to simultaneously take the viewer somewhere new, and somewhere in the subconscious." - Trey Egan

Pictured: What Illuminates May Ultimately Transcend, 52 x 70, oil on canvas, 2012. (detail above, full image below).