Art as Resistance
Trey is a visual artist, author, and illustrator based in Port Townsend, WA. Working across large-format mixed-media painting, zines, and long-form writing, the practice bears witness to fear-formed systems — political, theological, and cultural — and names what they produce.
Current work includes Institutional Collapse, a series of six paintings targeting the executive, judicial, legislative, financial, religious, and meta structures of authoritarian capture in America. Exhibition target: August–November 2026.
Recent Reads
• The Power Worshippers — Katherine Stewart — tracing the political machinery of the religious right
• The Bible Says So — Dan McClellan — examining misconceptions and controversies around scripture
• The Power of Myth — Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers — exploring myth as a lens for human meaning and cultural storytelling
• The Age of Grievance — Frank Bruni — how grievance culture shapes politics and society
• Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire — Kurt Andersen — a 500‑year history of America’s embrace of fantasy and unreality
• The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements — Eric Hoffer — classic study of fanaticism and mass movements