TRXTR aka David Anslow

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David Michael Anslow has been producing art for over 30 years in the form of Sculpture, Photography, Video, Music, Painting and Print. Throughout this time he has worked under a number of pseudonyms - 3 Years ago he assumed the nom de guerre of ‘TRXTR , pronounced Trickster, to distinguish his current body of work which utilizes photomontage, collage and both digital and analogue painting.

The name comes from the Native American god believed to appear in the form of the Coyote. This entity is a mischievous and dangerous prankster often playing cruel tricks on humans for it’s own amusement and appears in many forms through many cultures.

The main inspiration for the adoption of this name came from the performance named -

'I Like America and America Likes Me’ by Joseph Beuys in New York during the height of the Vietnam war.

After flying into New York Beuys was swathed in felt and loaded into an ambulance, then driven to the gallery where he spent three days in a room with a wild coyote without having once touched American soil. Over that period he tamed the animal which was then released.
As Beuys later explained:

‘I wanted to isolate myself, insulate myself, see nothing of America other than the coyote.’

The title of the work is filled with irony. Beuys opposed American military actions in Vietnam, and his work as an artist was a challenge to the hegemony of American art.