By Caroline Goldstein

The Showtime drama “Billions,” which chronicles the battle between a dogged US Attorney and a cocky hedge-fund mogul, works hard to get Wall Street right—and its quest for veracity extends to the art on set.

By Jody Zellen

Evan Trine’s digitally generated photographic works are distillations—works that abstractly reference their sources. Trine sifts through trending online news feeds, reducing or compressing into a single element the images and headlines he finds. The colored grids and typographic collages in his solo debut, “Trending,” are synergistic works where the whole is, in essence, the digital sum of the parts. At first glance, “Trending” could be an exhibition of colorfield/abstract expressionist paintings as the works pay homage to artists like Franz Kline and Ellsworth Kelley; however, Trine’s images are photographs—flat objects purposely devoid of texture.

By Lor Dethal

The evolution of photography has truly been as interesting and amazing as the evolution of art itself. In the contemporary art world, it is impossible to overlook it as it has branched and developed so that it encompasses almost every aspect of life. Presenting new perspectives on the familiar in his photographic methodology, Evan Trine uses common references as a source material while keeping all of his images unique. In avoiding the dark room chemistry, Trine creates photographs directly linked to the digital tools used to create them, transferring the technical elements to the final piece itself. Presenting latest works done by Evan Trine, Roberts and Tilton Gallery hosts a month long exhibition in Culver City under the name of Trending.

My work is directly linked to the software and digital tools I use to create it. I gather visual source material—old family photographs, newspaper headlines, portraits of friends, images of paintings I don’t really like—and manipulate it on the computer to create a condensed, simplified, essential version.