Created during her Fleur and Charles Bresler Residency at VisArts, working from a collected image bank plucked from print, internet sources, and storybooks, Trowbridge’s paintings are a mash up of images and references. Celebrities, animals, human body parts, cartoons, illustrations, advertisements, text and patterns crash over, squeeze between and gaze from shallow, ambiguous space. With horizontal borders at the top and bottom edges of the picture plane, the paintings suggest film stills. Multiple storylines appear to be running simultaneously and influencing alternate narratives. Her color, inspired by the Fauvist (wild beast) painters of the late 19th century exudes joy and bling, an exuberant baroque inclusion of everything.

Kit Trowbridge recently received her BFA from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design. In her work, Kit uses images from films, art history, architecture, and nature to build her painting surfaces layer by layer with a focus on color and shape.