Preston
Trombly
Media:
Mixed Media, Painting
Studio Location:
Diego Salazar Art Studios - 43-32 22nd St., Long Island City, NY 11101
Room/Studio#
106-B
Website:
Artist Bio:
Preston's art-work has been exhibited in museums, galleries and private and corporate collections throughout the greater New York and Tri-State areas, Chicago, Knoxville, Fort Collins, and Lavalenet, France. His works have received awards from The National Arts Club in NYC, the Cooperstown Art Association and The Art Students League of NY, where he studied for a number of years.
His artwork is represented in New York City by The Prince Street Gallery.
He has had solo exhibitions at Prince Street Gallery - NYC, Faust-Harrison Piano Gallery - NYC, Westfield State Univ., Krasdale Foods Headquarters, The Jasper Rand Museum, University of Connecticut Jorgensen Arts Center Gallery, and Fairleigh Dickenson University.
He is a frequent speaker and lecturer on the arts and creativity.
Prior to working in the visual arts, Preston was a musician: composer, performer, and conductor.
He holds a Master of Musical Arts degree from the Yale University School of Music. He was a Fellow in Composition and Conducting at the Tanglewood-Berkshire Music Center, a Guggenheim Fellow and a resident fellow at the MacDowell Colony, along with receiving commission grants from The NEA and the NY State Council on the Arts among others. He earned his Bachelor of Music with Honors from the University of Connecticut.
Classical music devotees know Preston as the host of Sirius/XM Satellite Radio's nationally broadcast "Symphony Hall" channel 78.
Artist Statement:
I make expressive, exuberant abstract art that is rhythmic and inspiring. My work is sometimes gestural, sometimes structured; sometimes bold, sometimes delicate and always full of life and emotion.
My artwork is about turning initially vague, fleeting and amorphous ideas, gestures and feelings into solid, concrete and comprehensible works of art.
Sometimes I combine collage elements with the mass and volume of painting (using various mark making tools) and the fluidity of drawing. Together they capture the fleeting temporal moments of the energy of life and the art-making experience itself.
My works express power and action through the use of bold rhythmic marks and sometimes collage and textural elements. The physicality of my art is intensified by pulsating brush strokes, drips, rubs, calligraphic elements and strong color washes.
Art making for me is a journey of self discovery of feelings and emotions that arise from a pre-verbal place deep within. My works tell ‘stories’ that cannot be told with words. These non-verbal feelings and emotions are then perceived uniquely by each viewer. No two people will have the same connection to a given piece.
As I begin, I work intuitively and don’t have a preconceived notion of any “message” or “story” I’m trying to tell. Rather, I’m responding to the materials and marks I put down for their own sake. The painting tells ME what IT needs.
