New Photographic Portraits an exhibition of new works by Evan Trine continues the artists’s exploration into the mis/translation of information, taking traditionally “understandable”imagery – the portrait - and transforming what we see into a median color. Single color grids, Evan’s “portraits” of himself and others, is information at its simplest; the history of portraiture reduced and condensed into a monochromatic formal abstraction. In this portrait series, Trine has selected existing images of himself, friends, and family, and compresses them into a single pixel. By eschewing traditional darkroom chemistry for digital processes, the formal, conceptual and technical aspects of photography transfer to the work.Trine’s optical flattening creates a limited visual vocabulary, effectively isolating the accuracy of image’s referential source, folding it into its predominant color.
