Trevor Winkfield Leaves Admirers Waxing Poetic

Fans of the artist won’t be surprised by the fanciful new canvases on exhibition at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, but Winkfield proves that consistency can be conducive to a deepening of vision.

Via Tibor de Nagy Gallery, photo by Alan Wiener
Trevor Winkfield, ‘Guardian of the Broom Closet’ (2018). Via Tibor de Nagy Gallery, photo by Alan Wiener

“Deep periwinkle, plumbago, or the electric blue of the gloaming hour from his native England”: Those are the words of a professor with the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Peter Gizzi, trying to pin down the exact variation of blue in one of Trevor Winkfield’s paintings. What is it about Mr. Winkfield’s art, currently the subject of an exhibition at Tibor de Nagy Gallery on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, that makes his admirers wax poetic?

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