CRIS WORLEY FINE ARTS

SHANNON CANNINGS

&

PAUL WINKER

Trey Egan
With You From The Start

April 19 – May 30, 2025

Opening reception: Saturday, April 19th // 5–7pm
(artist will be in attendance)

Cris Worley Fine Arts is proud to present our sixth solo exhibition of paintings by Trey Egan. The exhibition entitled, With You From The Start, opens Saturday, April 19th, and will be on view through May 30. The gallery will hold an Opening Reception for the artist, Saturday, April 19th from 5-7pm. The artist will be in attendance.

The title of this new exhibition emerges out of Egan’s realization that these artworks have been “with him from the start.” When Egan first began painting, he notes that his artistic aesthetic emerged naturally, always there waiting to be fully realized. Slowly over time, Egan’s practice has evolved through his color and texture choices.

For Egan, he sees each individual choice on the canvas as referencing a personal data set that unlocks the natural aesthetic within and reveals what was always meant to be. Each stroke on the canvas is a representation of the artist and his experiences. With You From The Start depicts works that Egan made solely at night, thus the images depict a reflection on his daytime activities. But Egan notes that he is not the one acting with full autonomy. Instead, he sees his practice as a negotiation between the painting and the painter – as a natural, personal, and symbiotic relationship is
formed between the two. Egan most clearly sees this when he enters a flow state in his studio, where everything flows creatively, and the painting seems to be momentarily effortless. The negotiation between the painter and the painting resolves any disputes between the two, as tensions are created in certain areas and solved in others.

Trey Egan received a Master of Fine Art from the University of North Texas College of Visual Art and Design. Early in his career, he was selected for many group exhibitions including some juried by esteemed curators Peter Doroshenko (Executive Director of the Dallas Contemporary), Toby Kamps (director of external projects at London’s White Cube gallery), Clint Willour (curator at the Galveston Arts Center) and artists Annette Lawrence, Vincent Falsetta, and Erick Swenson among others.

Egan’s brilliant solo debut during ArtHouston 2012, was followed by his selection to exhibit at the 2013 Texas Biennial in San Antonio. He followed with several successful solo exhibitions, including Systematic Motion in 2012, Be Still With Me in 2013, Signal Chamber in 2015, Wise With The Feeling in 2015, and Future Glow in 2017.
Egan has been exhibited multiple times at Art Fairs, including the Dallas Art Fair, Art Aspen, Pulse art fair in South Beach, and Miami Art Week. Trey Egan’s work has been acquired by private and public art collectors across the nation and internationally, such as UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX, Hall Arts Residences, Dallas, TX, and Toyota Motor North America, Frisco, TX. Egan also works passionately as an educator in studio art at various universities throughout the DFW Metroplex.

Terry Suprean
The Fatale Softness in the Earth

April 19 – May 30, 2025

Opening reception: Saturday, April 19th // 5–7pm
(artist will be in attendance)

Cris Worley Fine Arts is proud to present our first solo exhibition of paintings by Houston-based artist Terry Suprean. The exhibition entitled, The Fatale Softness in the Earth, opens Saturday, April 19th, and will be on view through May 30. The gallery will hold an Opening Reception for the artist, Saturday, April 19th from 5-7pm. The artist will be in attendance.

Drawing on the tensions between man and the earth found in Jeff VanderMeer’s novel Annihilation, Suprean’s new exhibition reflects man’s difficult relationship with our planet. Suprean sees our relationship with the world as a paradoxical one, as we both desire to know the earth and to conquer it. His works reflect the tradition of the “sublime landscape,” referencing artists such as Thomas Cole and Frederic Edwin Church. But while these artists see the earth as a powerful and overwhelming subject, Suprean’s awe lends to a kind of “revelatory mourning.” When overwhelmed by the beauty of the earth, Suprean focuses on how that beauty will one day be lost. The focus Suprean grants to the surface of his paintings reflects his desire to hold onto a landscape that is in the process of existentially fading.

Suprean’s work abstracts the sublime landscape around him. Using pigments that are mineral-based and sourced from the earth, the landscape becomes inherent in the literal make-up of his paintings. The various viscosities and chemical properties of his paints build up over time, mirroring sedimentary and geological landscapes. Suprean foregoes the use of a brush, using his own body to move the liquid pigment, making himself intrinsic to the landscape processes. He draws on the color field work of the Abstract Expressionists, using color to paint the abstracted world he sees around him. But he transforms the work of the Abstract Expressionists when using his own experimental paint materials and processes that are only recently available. Within both the process and the inspiration, Suprean draws from the earth and his own personal relationship with it.

Terry Suprean is an artist, arts organizer, and educator based in Houston, Texas. He spent his youth embedded in the activist punk movements of the 90’s playing in bands and show promoting in his hometown of New Orleans before moving to Houston in his early 20’s. Before being turned onto visual art by Houston artist Virgil Grotfeldt in
undergraduate school, he was a physics major—an influence still felt his experimental, process-based approach to painting and paint making.

Suprean has worked since 2014 as an art organizer and curator; first through Civic TV, an artist-run gallery space he founded in Houston’s warehouse district dedicated to collaborative curatorial practices and exhibiting new media art and experimental music. After Civic TV closed during the pandemic, he opened Ruth Street Projects in 2022—a small community-centered gallery run out of a spare room in his home. Ruth Street Projects is currently active producing exhibitions for Houston-based artists several times a year. These art organizing projects, influenced by Joseph Beuys’
“Social Sculpture” model, have been as important and essential to Suprean’s practice as his studio work.

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