Biography
Troy Abbot graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in fine arts, in 1990. Originally focused on drawing, he quickly gravitated toward the expanding field of digital art. Presently, his works combine digital, sculptural, and video elements to create “birds” in cages to convey messages about freedom and reality. Abbott films his own footage of the birds he uses in his work and frequents thrift shops to find bird cages both unique in style and personality. More recently he has been exposing the wires and circuitry necessary to illuminate the birds in the screen, calling attention to what gives them life and how we perceive reality. Abbott remains in Florida today.
Artist Statement
Decay and destruction are the beginning points of many of my creations. Something must break or splinter or burst before it can be transformed into something else, something new. Rocks to sand to clay become glass and brick and steel and then a shiny new building. I look to the past as a beginning point of my process. The past is a constant echo reverberating in our present. My work seeks to bridge the past and the present; To Connect memory with reality and the artificial with the real. I am very interested in our perception and experience of what we call "Reality".
Recent Shows and/or Exhibitions
2024 July
“Nothing is real: Except everything fake”, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2023
Un/Natural Selection, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
Art Miami
2022
The Baggage We Bring, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami FL
Art Miami, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami FL
2021
It’s Hot Miami, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami FL
Collections & Archives
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY
Mordes Collection, Palm Beach, FL
Marvin Ross Friedman, Coral Gables, FL
James & Priscilla Growney, Honolulu, HI
Richard Levine, Miami, FL
L. Solomon, Santa Barbara, CA
Troy Abbot graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in fine arts, in 1990. Originally focused on drawing, he quickly gravitated toward the expanding field of digital art. Presently, his works combine digital, sculptural, and video elements to create “birds” in cages to convey messages about freedom and reality. Abbott films his own footage of the birds he uses in his work and frequents thrift shops to find bird cages both unique in style and personality. More recently he has been exposing the wires and circuitry necessary to illuminate the birds in the screen, calling attention to what gives them life and how we perceive reality. Abbott remains in Florida today.
Artist Statement
Decay and destruction are the beginning points of many of my creations. Something must break or splinter or burst before it can be transformed into something else, something new. Rocks to sand to clay become glass and brick and steel and then a shiny new building. I look to the past as a beginning point of my process. The past is a constant echo reverberating in our present. My work seeks to bridge the past and the present; To Connect memory with reality and the artificial with the real. I am very interested in our perception and experience of what we call "Reality".
Recent Shows and/or Exhibitions
2024 July
“Nothing is real: Except everything fake”, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2023
Un/Natural Selection, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
Art Miami
2022
The Baggage We Bring, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami FL
Art Miami, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami FL
2021
It’s Hot Miami, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami FL
Collections & Archives
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY
Mordes Collection, Palm Beach, FL
Marvin Ross Friedman, Coral Gables, FL
James & Priscilla Growney, Honolulu, HI
Richard Levine, Miami, FL
L. Solomon, Santa Barbara, CA