Cris Worley Fine Arts is pleased to announce our second solo exhibition with Patrick Turk, entitled Trip Hardererrr, opening with an artist’s reception on Saturday, June 30th from 5:00 to 8:00pm. The exhibition will feature twenty new mixed media sculptures with an additional installation, to be seen under ultraviolet light. This exhibition has traveled to Dallas from Houston, where it showed at Apama Mackey Gallery. Trip Hardererrr will be on view in Dallas through August 18.

Turk is known for his highly imaginative collages, assembled using illustrations from printed media sources with botanical, commercial, medical, mythical, and religious subjects. The artist’s work is often described as a visually dense and destabilizing microcosm of cultural artifacts and natural forms encased in resin. Organic and unsettling, his work utilizes a bewitching visual vernacular chosen to question the nature of collecting and ordering our existence.

The title of the exhibition is a direct reference to the powerful cognitive effects of psychoactive substances, which blur consciousness to create ecstatic, metaphysical, and phenomenological experiences. As might happen in altered states, despite rich candy colored facades, experiences can carry potent truths about personal beliefs and actions that effect change.