I am really feeling Trek Thunder Kelly’s relationship to art and commerce. In his art Kelly uses iconic imagery and juxtaposes it with opposing ideas and often in great humor. I am completely drawn to his Indian fashion meets art series. It is visually unique, powerful, and innovative!

In addition the artist espouses the idea of inserting art unexpectedly, and out-of-context, into our daily reality. For example, in 1999, he wore a three-piece, black-tie tuxedo every where, every day for a year, challenging people’s ideas of fashion, and art.

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In the artists Studio, Gabi Trinkaus is surrounded by thousands of paper snippets out of fashion magazines. Trinkaus has called herself a “medium thief”, cutting up high brightness magazines into small parts, using the pictures of our desires from magazines to create her portraits and city landscapes that make references to the aesthetics of advertising and the media that surrounds us in or everyday lives. From far her images look different than when you get close and see how the collage breaks at points to meet her pencil lines, creating an obstruction of the depth,  exposing a dismantling of our perceptions of reality.

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