A treasure of mini-mongraphs by English born, New York based artist, Trevor Winkfield.
”Winkfield fills his paintings with court jesters, tournament props, and monkish hoods, yet this is also unmistakably the work of a modern man, who sees abstraction as a fact of life‹a visual equivalent of a more general cultural disarray. He's basically attracted to medieval pageantry because it's an idealized order, and if his own post-abstract sense of structure leaves lots of room for upheaval and confusion, that's his way of measuring the distance that we've travelled from the time of The Romance of the Rose. What Winkfield understands is that the pomp and circumstance that may have been a medieval reality have become a modern fantasy, and because he has such an intuitive feeling for that never-never land, his paintings, although chock-a-block with off-beat pedantry, aren't overly self-conscious. His exuberant color and get-the-job-done painthandling lend even the most labyrinthine imaginings a streamlined ease. We're able to glance easily over mysteriously antiquarian encounters. In Winkfield's paintings bizarre juxtapositions are everyday occurances. He's telling us that modern life is a crazy pageant.”
--Jed Perl

“If all art aspires toward the condition of music…Trevor Winkfield must be counted among the most successful artists of all time.” – John Ashbery