✨Closing Thursday, December 22✨ "Cassandra: Truth and Madness" Dean Byington at Anglim/Trimble Many of the paintings on view were inspired by images of the Bingham Canyon Mine, Utah (located in the Oquirrh Mountains) and the Grasberg Mine located in Papua, Indonesia. Both mines are considered to be the largest man-made excavations in the world and so vast that they can be clearly seen from outer space. Byington examines the consequences of such colossal interventions in the earth by creating densely configured scenes that reference real and imagined places through appropriated and invented imagery. In the late 1990s, Byington began to combine his interests in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century prints and illustrated books with photomechanical and digital processes. He developed a complex multi- layered method (including drawing, painting, printing, and collaging) for producing oil paintings that simultaneously recall Surrealist collage and the assemblage and psychedelic aesthetic of the 1950s and 1960s. Although this aspect of his work continues to be explored, there is a new direction using traditional painting techniques and imagery; both approaches will be exhibited together in the new show. Image: Dean Byington, Siren (Cassandra 2), 2022. Courtesy the artist and Anglim Trimble (@anglimtrimble).