Troy is one of the original members of the Modbo Collective. He graduated from Mesa State College with a BA in Fine Art – Painting in 2002. Troy lives in Colorado Springs and in addition to painting currently works as a graphic designer with his wife Sara under the moniker Fixer Design. I am fascinated by irony: double meanings that can make you squirm uncomfortably, make you laugh, and then bring you to tears. This show is meant to take a comical and biting look at the ways we attempt to restrain our secret motivations: ambition, friendship, fear, pride and loyalty (among others) and expose the ways in which we try to hide our true motivations from those around us; the ways in which we “play nice.” In an attempt to emulate this restraint, I decided to impose my own restrictions on the work by limiting my canvases to square proportions as well as limiting the color palette to only four colors.
Troy is one of the original members of the Modbo Collective. He graduated from Mesa State College with a BA in Fine Art – Painting in 2002. Troy lives in Colorado Springs and in addition to painting currently works as a graphic designer with his wife Sara under the moniker Fixer Design. I am fascinated by irony: double meanings that can make you squirm uncomfortably, make you laugh, and then bring you to tears. This show is meant to take a comical and biting look at the ways we attempt to restrain our secret motivations: ambition, friendship, fear, pride and loyalty (among others) and expose the ways in which we try to hide our true motivations from those around us; the ways in which we “play nice.” In an attempt to emulate this restraint, I decided to impose my own restrictions on the work by limiting my canvases to square proportions as well as limiting the color palette to only four colors.
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