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Trevor Coopersmith
I am interested in exploring California cultural elements of skateboarding, surfing and graffiti culture, alongside a personal connection to the landscape, organic matter and entanglements of consciousness. My work approaches the painting world in a phenomenological way. Shifts of scale, ambiguity, and temporality are central themes of my work. I’m interested in having viewers explore the canvas as if traversing through a landscape. Earth excavations and emptiness, natural and artificial, built landscape and natural landscape, alienation and existential strangeness are dualities I wish to investigate in my practice.
My recent work presents a series of concentric mushroom gills representing and translating a personal experience; 8 days and 115 miles by skateboard across central California to question methodologies of progress.
![Entanglements of Elevation I spray paint on canvas, 2020](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/a50fa237-35e2-4114-a249-f9e384c4926c/2f3ce468-e9c2-4c10-9757-cea764a88e1f_rw_1920.jpg?h=70d671b4b333d1f4010fd082c24867d0)
Entanglements of Elevation I spray paint on canvas, 2020
![Entanglements of Elevation VI spray paint on canvas, 2020](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/a50fa237-35e2-4114-a249-f9e384c4926c/27ed312a-2522-4c65-b0d9-07f2cbfa7d52_rw_1920.jpg?h=029d5f85060b1295cc764f6b39f0b2fb)
Entanglements of Elevation VI spray paint on canvas, 2020
![Entanglements of Elevation VIII spray paint on canvas, 2020](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/a50fa237-35e2-4114-a249-f9e384c4926c/d536be00-0588-4b8e-9cbb-c346679c69f5_rw_1920.jpg?h=f75f1bd53599eaf7cb5d813184f9a7ef)