Studio 27.28, Art Gallery is proud to present art by Ed Trask, a solo show (with artist Mindy Kober in Gallery B), on April 4, 2009 (First Saturday) from 6-9pm. Studio 27.28 is located at 2728 Girard Ave Philadelphia PA 19130. Ed Trask, based out of Richmond VA, paints dilapidated buildings, soon to be developed landscapes, forgotten architectural gems, and telephone and power lines that connect to the abstract.
“I paint a symbolic portrait of themes dealing with preservation, spirituality, and a social, moral loss of history in a consumer driven age. There is a conflict between composition, surface, and representation, and a battle between an almost graffiti like graphic flatness with a heavy-handed painterly approach.” - Trask
While in school at Virginia Commonwealth University, Ed Trask spent every waking hour painting and playing music in the mid 80’s Richmond punk scene. By his junior year, after many attempts for gallery attention, he decided to make the dilapidated buildings surrounding VCU his gallery.
The paintings were directly applied to the buildings, or screwed onto the buildings illegally until the city was covered. In 1992, Ed graduated with a painting degree and moved to Washington D.C. where he started touring with the Dischord records band the Holy Rollers, & continued to paint illegal murals all over the world. Three years later he moved back to Richmond to join the band Kepone.
While the demand for his paintings started to grow, he started a gallery and made a go at mural and sign work. The work has never stopped flowing in, and Ed Trask’s work has been collected into many permanent collections including Gap, Capitol One, Fortune Magazine, N.B.C. Philip Morris, Media General and Play Inc. Ed now plays in the bands AVAIL and Corntooth, continues to have art shows worldwide and has his studio in Richmond Virginia where he lives with his beautiful wife and two children.
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