Brent Trueblood

Artist Statement

My work comes from layers, chaos, and repetition—the way images stack up on city walls and torn billboards over time. I pull from graffiti, psychedelia, and the visual noise of urban spaces, building compositions that feel ripped, crowded, and constantly shifting. Nothing is meant to feel clean or finished. The mess is the point.

The decay of urban billboards plays a major role. I’m drawn to how advertisements fall apart—paper peeling, colors fading, messages breaking down. By tearing, remixing, and burying those fragments, the work reflects a city shedding its surface-level promises and revealing something more honest underneath: raw, overloaded, and unresolved.