A first art exhibition for artist/designer Bernard Trainor and the Woods + Dangaran team, but not their first collaboration. As founder of landscape architecture practice Ground Studio, Trainor has designed landscapes alongside Joe Dangaran and Brett Woods for a number of dynamic projects spanning a range of scales and contexts. With this exhibition, they are now expanding the collaboration to further blur the lines between art and design.
Crevice explores the intersection of — and constant equilibrium between — natural and human-built systems. What was originally a natural system, then adapted to human needs, becomes something entirely new: a collaboration, a distinct ecotype created through the dialogue between humans and their environment. A push and pull, like tides. Throughout, Trainor remains curious about the possibilities: the adaptive way we create new evolutionary systems through resilience and opportunism.
The paintings in this series are an attempt to understand the pattern language when humans intersect with their environment and to heighten awareness of the opportunities that lie in the spaces in between. With textures and a color palette that allude to life in a dry climate, Trainor’s paintings evoke an appreciation of struggle in the natural world, a beauty in resilience, and the unexpected patterns emerging within this overlay.
