I am interested in painting as an object as well as its ability to illustrate space, light, and form.

I created this body of work on paper using my own past works as a visual vocabulary. Through collage and a variety of mixedmedia processes, the past elements combine with new compositions to create a visual experience that is both cyclical and unifying. Digital processes clash with the handmade in my effort to simultaneously reference myself and create a dynamic personal aesthetic. There is an awareness of power removed and gained when an image becomes divorced from its origin, and then changed beyond recognition. The recycled imagery

On the road between here and there are anonymous structures, mere rest stops for most of us. But not for Trevor Young. Where some see purgatory, he sees and paints an oasis; a portal becomes a destination. Young’s “non-places” coax us down the highway with their seductive smell of familiarity and french fries. His paintings are composites made of a lifetime of mental snapshots taken on countless trips to the drive-thru. We are simultaneously drawn to the slick veneers and repulsed by their lack of history.

I am concerned with developing a response to abstraction that addresses nuances of color and surface. My paintings combine depictions of flat and illusionistic space, developed systematically over periods of time that can extend from several months to several years. The surfaces of my work acquire a relief-like quality as I apply acrylic paint mixed with various mediums over collaged surfaces.