Trinity Fallon Artist Statement 2024

My body of work combines realism with a multitude of mediums, including but not limited to colored pencils, ink, graphite, and paint. The resulting drawings/paintings reflect themes of mental illness, religious struggles, and interpersonal relationships I face in my daily life. 

Compositions are typically portraits or carefully cropped images to help heighten the narrative of each piece I create. Using realism to depict my personal struggles, I am able to tell a story that I am unable to describe in words. Realism creates a sense of relatability to viewers as they are able to recognize certain figures and place their own memories and experiences with them. While creating and combining different realities into my drawings, for example my tattoo series, I’m able to show my relationship with tattooing, the subject, and the subject’s interests when creating the added images to each piece. In the tattoo series, each composition focuses on different body parts with tattoos added that the subjects do not actually have. Some of these added tattoos come off of the subject’s body and allude to them coming off the page to create a new reality and space for each of the three pieces in the series. 

Art is my outlet for emotions and I want those emotions to be read from each piece when viewers look at them. An example of this can be seen in my piece titled “Anxious Tendencies” where the border is larger than the drawing itself to give viewers a sense of anxiety and belittlement that I am trying to convey. Introducing pop culture/celebrities into my work further helps me tell a story as many of the artists referenced in my work have similar struggles as me or have specific songs or films that relate to my personal experiences that I want to share with my audience. For example, “All Eyes On Me” is a symbolic portrait drawing of Bo Burnham based off a performance skit where he sings a song about his anxiety and panic attacks while performing his comedy. The song is him challenging those thoughts by forcing viewers to look at him up close in personal, as my piece demonstrates, due to its close up composition of his face/eyes staring directly at viewers. 

Overall, my work consists of realistic compositions using a variety of colors and materials, aiming to create personal narratives that resonate with my audience. Through my exploration of themes such as mental health, religious struggles, and interpersonal relationships, I strive to transform intimate struggles into visual stories that evoke emotion and encourage reflection. I invite viewers to step into my world and connect their own experiences. My work serves not only as a creative outlet, but also as a means of fostering connection and inviting viewers to reflect their own experiences through the lens of my personal struggles. I am currently exhibiting my mental health series which includes “Anxious Tendencies,” “Bipolar,” and “Insomnia” alongside an experimental piece about my religious struggles titled “LOST ANGEL”  in a group show at Promise You Art House and plan on future shows with the same group of artists. As I am graduated  with a BA in fine arts and minor in psychology, I will continue to draw and paint alongside my chosen career of tattooing.