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Trevor Pye: Inspirational Joy
SummarySome months ago I was thrilled to learn that Tauranga-based artist Trevor Pye would be exhibiting in Tauranga in early January. His work has been an inspirational joy ever since I first saw it in 2006 and even more so after having had the privilege of visiting his home studio on a number of occasions since then. People like myself, who are keen on the visual arts, see and enjoy thousands of paintings but every once and while the work of an artist really grabs our attention and makes a significant impact. 
Main BodyTrevor has worked as an exhibiting fine artist and children's book illustrator over the past 20 years.
He completed his MFA with first class honours at Auckland's Elam School of Fine Arts in 1996.
His work can be found in collections as far afield as the USA and Bulgaria and he also exhibits at the Rex-Livingston Gallery in Sydney. Trevor has also taught and learnt from a new generation of artists as a lecturer at Auckland's AUT.
Trevor Pye and a large work in progress
"I don't approach my work with a specific intention; there is a general intention of disparity, compositional and formal concerns, and images that for me carry a certain potency, but, as with the work pictured, I begin having no idea how the finished work will look," says Trevor.
Trevor's work is about encouraging a space for thinking, or better still, a space for dialogue. For him it must work on a formal level, and be interesting to look at, but once the viewer's attention is captured, then layerings, disconnects, recontexturalisations and ambiguous meanings are presented, primarily to turn the viewer's attention back on themselves in an act of self-consideration or self-questioning. Or for those who aren't of a conceptual bent, it could just be enjoyed as an interesting 'picture' and nothing else.
Trevor says the viewer might consider that whatever opinion is formed as a response to a work of art, that response states more about the viewer than it does about the work itself.
Original articles contained another image here.
The work 'Untitled 01' is one of a series of three works and will be one of the works exhibited.
“Normally I work fast but in this case, after the under-painting processes were completed, the work sat for several years before I was ready to wrestle some sense out of it through a process of layering and a combination of abstract and representational elements,” says Trevor.
One of Trevor's recent works can be seen at Tauranga Art Gallery in the Miles Award exhibition until February 27.
Trevor Pye's exhibition, entitled Hypothetical Portraits and Other Things, opens at the Laundromat Art Project Space on 2nd Avenue at 5.30pm on January 6 to 28.
For more details check out www.laps.co.nz
by Pete Morris (2011).
Pete Morris is an occasional painter and art lover. He is a freelance writer with a particular interest in promoting the visual arts in Tauranga.
This page archived at Perma CC in November of 2016: https://perma.cc/S7HB-2Y56
Main BodyTrevor has worked as an exhibiting fine artist and children's book illustrator over the past 20 years.He completed his MFA with first class honours at Auckland's Elam School of Fine Arts in 1996.
His work can be found in collections as far afield as the USA and Bulgaria and he also exhibits at the Rex-Livingston Gallery in Sydney. Trevor has also taught and learnt from a new generation of artists as a lecturer at Auckland's AUT.
Trevor Pye and a large work in progress
"I don't approach my work with a specific intention; there is a general intention of disparity, compositional and formal concerns, and images that for me carry a certain potency, but, as with the work pictured, I begin having no idea how the finished work will look," says Trevor.
Trevor's work is about encouraging a space for thinking, or better still, a space for dialogue. For him it must work on a formal level, and be interesting to look at, but once the viewer's attention is captured, then layerings, disconnects, recontexturalisations and ambiguous meanings are presented, primarily to turn the viewer's attention back on themselves in an act of self-consideration or self-questioning. Or for those who aren't of a conceptual bent, it could just be enjoyed as an interesting 'picture' and nothing else.
Trevor says the viewer might consider that whatever opinion is formed as a response to a work of art, that response states more about the viewer than it does about the work itself.
Original articles contained another image here.
Untitled 01: 970mm x 1920mm-acrylic, shellac and mixed media, 2009 by Trevor Pye.
The work 'Untitled 01' is one of a series of three works and will be one of the works exhibited.
“Normally I work fast but in this case, after the under-painting processes were completed, the work sat for several years before I was ready to wrestle some sense out of it through a process of layering and a combination of abstract and representational elements,” says Trevor.
One of Trevor's recent works can be seen at Tauranga Art Gallery in the Miles Award exhibition until February 27.
Trevor Pye's exhibition, entitled Hypothetical Portraits and Other Things, opens at the Laundromat Art Project Space on 2nd Avenue at 5.30pm on January 6 to 28.
For more details check out www.laps.co.nz
by Pete Morris (2011).
Pete Morris is an occasional painter and art lover. He is a freelance writer with a particular interest in promoting the visual arts in Tauranga.
This page archived at Perma CC in November of 2016: https://perma.cc/S7HB-2Y56
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