Tripping Over Cypress: Recent Work by Cliff Tresner

Tripping Over Cypress is an examination of how the artist Cliff Tresner places himself within the literal and cultural landscape of Louisiana. Originally a Hoosier, he is an adoptive Louisianan since 1997. At any given moment a change in weather or a passing word can create a push and pull between where he is grounded. His fluid conception of home is mirrored by the manner in which he incorporates painting and sculpture; they are inseparable but, flow from one into the other. 

His work is foundationally informed by his background in furniture design, a skill taught to him in Indiana by Tulane University alum Jack Gates, and his interests are as broad as natural beauty, human frailty, representation versus abstraction, improvisation, creation and destruction, and the chain of events that cause the water to rise in a bayou.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website