TREY ABDELLA

The lines between painting, sculpture, and assemblage become blurred in Trey Abdella’s work. The artist combines hyper realistic painting with moments of sculpted out resin and found objects as a play on illusionistic depth. Utilising materials such as wigs, broken glass, resin, magic 8 balls, fake flowers, and functioning clocks.

In GROWING PAINS, his first solo show at KÖNIG GALERIE in Berlin in 2020, Abdella explored the shortcomings of the human condition, puberty and adulthood.

MIRRORS focuses on the mundane horror of daily life honing in on the over-dramatization of the banal-such as driving through a downpour of rain in the middle of the night, waiting impatiently for someone to get ready, or getting caught in a lie.

Abdella keeps in mind a balance of narrative, both the pleasant and painful facets of suburban life. The painting In The Gutter, depicts a rain spout gushing water into a well-landscaped lawn meanwhile in the distance a young boy is pinned down under the neighbourhood bully. Storytelling is at the heart of Abdella’s artistic practice, the works tell individual stories that operate almost as chapters in a book. ‘There is always trouble in happiness’, Abdella says.