Exhibition Reviews
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“All Stories Are True” explores familial narratives and reflects Trilling’s interest in how material culture triggers memory. Habitat Contemporary Gallery’s website includes that “with each fiber crocheted, Trilling echoes a life story and the memory ponds, verts, game boards and woodland objects become more complex as the tale unfolds… Materials, patterns, [and] certain numerical codes are her conceptual signifiers.”
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"When I hear the word crochet, I envision the vintage cloths known as antimacassars that used to reside on the backs of chairs to protect their fabric from being stained by men’s hair oil. Thankfully, Gerry Trilling has provided us all with a new visual repertoire to replace those outdated images in “Memory Ponds,” her new exhibition of approximately 160 works, each titled with a number, at the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art."
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"We are a nation of immigrants and refugees. Always have been. Even if we have short memories of who came from where, or for what reasons, countless stories thread in and out and through the families that have come to this country generation after generation. “Narrative Atlas,” Gerry Trilling’s final solo exhibition as a resident of Studios Inc., explores the role of material culture as a vehicle for memories: of family, of place, of ethnicity, of class, of community."