Trisha Kyner is an Associate Professor of Art at the Community College of Baltimore County. She holds a B.A. from University of California, Santa Cruz, a B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an M.F.A. from the University of Montana. She hails from Colorado and California, but now calls Baltimore home. She lives in a converted grocery store in Baltimore County with fellow artist David Friedheim and two cats.
Im a multimedia artist whose works are inspired by people and conversations. I'm also a Gallery Assistant Intern at Touchstone Gallery and attend St. John’s College in Annapolis Maryland.
The Midway
A free standing light based installation that further explores the carnival aesthetic found in my work. The piece takes a series of differing components sifted from the variation of overlapping visual experiences found on a carnival midway and locks them together as a complete landscape of their own while still democratically allowing each unit to individually compete for the viewers attention and it's turn to bask them in a warm blanket of electric joy.
Medium: Plywood, Lumber, sheet metal. acrylic sheeting, incandescent lighting, LED lighting, latex paint, micro-controllers, electronic relays
Year: 2022
The Serpent/ Integrated Carnival Energy Systems
“The Serpent” is an installation designed originally for The Penn State Abington Gallery. The Fall 2017 show entitled “Integrated Carnival Energy Systems” is an experiment in creating multiple arduino controlled light systems that operate separately but work together to create the overall experience. At Penn State
Medium: Plywood, Sheet metal, Plexi-glass, LEDs, Incandescent light bulbs, Glitter, Micro-controller
Year: 2017
Details: 10 feet x 50 feet