Gerry Trilling, “Hidden Minority”
Gerry Trilling Artist Statement
My work is concerned with the relationship of perception to organized systems of information.
A summer spent in New York City engendered a profound awareness of infrastructure potential—both fragmentation and integration—which had a powerful impact on my work and led me to investigate the idiosyncrasies of patterned compositional structures within the visual field.
In 2010 I began using a patterned overlay to metaphorically illustrate how information can be filtered. Used in that way, patterning encourages a false sense of order even as it disrupts experiential perception. I want the viewer to be aware of both the construct and what is hidden from view, though I believe people will always try to integrate both experiences into one reality.
Response by Nin Andrews
