Trevor Toney is an artist and woodworker in Massachusetts. He received his Associates in Furniture Making & Design from the Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester, MA in 2004 where he was awarded The David L. Morreale Art Award for Excellence in Design & Craft. In early 2022 he resigned after 16 years as Lead Preparator at the Worcester Art Museum to work as a full-time artist. Trevor has shown his work in both juried and invitational exhibitions including Folding Space, a solo exhibition at the Rochester Museum of Fine Art, Rochester, NH. He has work in several private collections, and has been published in the Lark Books ‘500 series’ for Chairs, Wooden Boxes, and Cabinets.
About this collection:
My work is about perception. It’s about how it takes time and investigation to understand. It’s about questioning our initial notion and avoiding the pitfalls of ignorance/arrogance. It’s about meditating on something to practice the art of observation. It’s about not knowing everything. It’s about removing filters from our senses and letting them guide us to a dispassionate realization. And ultimately it’s about learning how to recognize balance and harmony.
Medium: Oak crotch veneer, Baltic birch plywood, acrylic paint.
Massachusetts, USA
Trevor Toney is an artist and woodworker in Massachusetts. He received his Associates in Furniture Making & Design from the Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester, MA in 2004 where he was awarded The David L. Morreale Art Award for Excellence in Design & Craft. In early 2022 he resigned after 16 years as Lead Preparator at the Worcester Art Museum to work as a full-time artist. Trevor has shown his work in both juried and invitational exhibitions including Folding Space, a solo exhibition at the Rochester Museum of Fine Art, Rochester, NH. He has work in several private collections, and has been published in the Lark Books ‘500 series’ for Chairs, Wooden Boxes, and Cabinets.
About this collection:
My work is about perception. It’s about how it takes time and investigation to understand. It’s about questioning our initial notion and avoiding the pitfalls of ignorance/arrogance. It’s about meditating on something to practice the art of observation. It’s about not knowing everything. It’s about removing filters from our senses and letting them guide us to a dispassionate realization. And ultimately it’s about learning how to recognize balance and harmony.