Convoluted Universe
22 March – 3 May 2025
Vernissage
22 March, 4–8 p.m.
Trek Valdizno’s paintings are a visual feast: a polyphony of gestural shapes and forms thrives in a picture field environed by dazzling and mesmerizing color. In Convoluted Universe, the exhibition’s title, the suite of paintings becomes totemic—by way of allegory, they point to the artist’s soulful musings.
It is the artist’s intention to highlight the prevalent misuse of information propagated through various mass media platforms. Valdizno has allowed a few clues to redirect and contextualize his paintings’ pictorial juggernaut. The artist volunteers in his artist’s notes that his painting foray is a private response to his own experienced quagmire—his own coming to terms with the digression of truthful facts. These paintings are about “this time and age, where everything catapults an existence of disbelief into the world of fake narratives and falsehoods.”
— Jonathan Olazo
Convoluted Universe is my perspective on the world at large—my motivation and pressure in this time and age, where everything catapults an existence of disbelief into the world of fake narratives and falsehoods.
As an artist, I began questioning my own existence and defining what exists in my mind. This dreamlike, out-of-this-world abstraction wants to tell a story—a story in which abstraction creates familiarity, as depicted in the natural world. I try to narrate my abstract reality within a world of illusion and misunderstanding—that art, be it non-representational, can tell a story.
— Trek Valdizno, February 2025
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