Ian Trask is a Maine-based sculptor and multimedia artist who transforms waste materials into objects and installations with new purpose and integrity. His immersive works often play with sophisticated patterns, lending unlikely materials exquisite beauty.

At other times, he works on an intimate scale with puckish humor.

In 2022 Trask created an ephemeral 30’ textile mural titled “Cosmic Thread” on the entry wall at the Center For Maine Contemporary Art in Rockland, Maine as part of his first solo museum exhibition Mind Loops. Last year, he partnered with printer Alex Carlisle (Carlisle Printmaking) to capture the monumental textile piece in a large format 32-color screen print edition.

Trask began his career in New York City, where he was a core member of the Invisible Dog Art Center and exhibited at the Spring Break Art Fair, Pioneer Works, the Figment Festival, and Brooklyn Academy of Music. Upon returning to Maine in 2015, where he studied biology at Bowdoin College, Trask has exhibited at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, University of Maine, and Cove Street Arts. In 2018, he published his first artist book, Strange Histories: A Bizarre Collaboration, and has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Portland Press Herald, Maine Magazine, and Brooklyn Magazine.