Houston-born, New York artist Trey Speegle makes paintings that incorporate letterforms and text with paint-by-numbers backgrounds. The result is a campy Pop-hybrid that speaks of both painting and American material culture.
The best pieces, I think, present an intriguing aphorism, rather than a single word, - think of a domestic Jenny Holzer. In a profile in the December 2010 Texas Monthly, Speegle says,
I guess that’s what living in this age is about, really – curating and recontextualizing your world to suit yourself.
I think so, too.
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