Tristan “TBMcQueen” Bowersox is a multi-disciplinary artist and designer with a keen eye for color, texture, and tone. They have been practicing collage for ten years and design for fifteen, winning awards for book cover design, writing, and art direction. Tristan lives and works in Colorado Springs, and is a member of the True North art gallery at 31 E. Bijou.

Their sources for collage material are almost entirely thrifted vintage books and magazines – they prefer the spontaneity this breeds as it allows serendipity and a sense of fate to enter the process. As the works have become increasingly abstract over the years, they have also grown more subtly expressionist.

Clippings cut to dance on the edge of recognizability and challenging compositions that make pointed use of negative space are strategies to access the subconscious and pull hidden emotions to the surface.