Inspire Fine Art is proud to present “Painting with Light: Two Generations – A Father and Son.” The exhibit will feature the work of Trevor Goss and his son Anton Goss. Trevor is a fine artist whose work is represented in private collections worldwide. His art is prominent in the entertainment industry, including backdrop and installation commissions for Sting, Cher, Johnny Cash, the Dixie Chicks, MTV, VHI, Atlanta Summer Olympics/AT&T, Salt Lake Winter Olympics and the Oprah Winfrey Show. Anton is an Emmy-nominated scenic designer whose many clients include AT&T, the Bachelor, CMT, Deal or No Deal, Extra, MTV, the Oprah Winfrey Show, and VHI. Trevor and Anton have created innovative art and design together on many projects including those for Oprah, AT&T, MTV and VHI.

The new millennium ushers in high tech materials such as laser embossed foils combined with artists’ acrylics and micro ground pigments that give rise to the art works of Trevor Goss. Surface tension, a color changing palette and the ever-present canvas texture emit a deceptively simple image. Beneath the surface are multiple layered grounds in which holographic leaf is suspended. Light is thus encapsulated within these layers to form an inner spectral glow where light flickers across fields of color in a dance of light and illusion.

The Impressionist painters’ treatment of light and reflection always appealed to Trevor. “Not impressionism exactly, more abstract impressionism. It was like if Monet were alive today,” he says. “painting with the same principles of color, juxtaposition and a feeling of light.” Interested in the artistic possibilities of light, Trevor began to experiment with light diffractive laser embossed foil. “I kind of cross-linked textile techniques with fine arts and invented a holographic leaf,” he says. “The nice thing about holographic material is that it contains all the colors of the spectrum, and the color changes as the light changes.” Consequently the artwork becomes kinetic rather than static, fluid as opposed to fixed. Where Impressionist paintings are about light, Trevor Goss’s paintings are light.

Trevor received his formal art education at the Michaelis School of Fine Arts at Cape Town where he captured the prestigious Cape Salon award in painting and sculpture and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and the Master of Fine Arts Program at Hornsey School of Fine Arts in London.

The world according to Anton Goss is spontaneous: the big brush, in the moment, first thoughts best thoughts - head in the clouds, but feet on the ground. Movement is ever present – more appetitive than cerebral – and existential “nowness” is imbued with directness, happenstance and the lightness of being. Color is translucent and the easel is abandoned as he moves around the canvas and the canvas in turn moves around him. His work is mobile, dynamic and experimental. When viewing his work one is presented with the temporal and mercurial times in which we live.

Anton was born in London and from early childhood found a place in his father’s art studio. He watched Trevor pour acrylic paintings while listening to Jimmy Hendrix and took walks to the cemetery across the road where Karl Marx is buried. When Anton was two, the family moved to Ibiza where he became immersed in a world out of this world with experimental music, art, performance art and theatre. At the age of 19, Anton opened his first experimental gallery and studio, Lithium, in Venice, CA where he and his father first showed together and went on to open his renowned Consortium Studios. Anton entered the field of entertainment design when his father introduced him to friend and award-winning designer Jeremy Railton and in turn Anton introduced Trevor to this world when they worked together on the Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1995.

“Painting with Light: Two Generations – A Father and Son” will open September 15, 2006 at Inspire Fine Art in Chicago at 425 East Illinois Street, Suite 131 at the River East Art Center. The exhibition will continue until November 12, 2006. The official opening night reception will be on September 15 from 5:30 pm – 8:30pm. Please visit www.inspirefineart.com or call (313)595-9475 for further information.

Inspire Fine Art features modern and contemporary abstract art including painting, glass, photography and sculpture. Inspire Fine Art is open Wednesday – Saturday from 11 am – 6 pm and Sunday from Noon – 5 pm.
For a press pack, further information or to request an interview with Trevor or Anton Goss, please contact:

Liz Martin
liz@inspirefineart.com
(312)595-9475