Genesis Tramaine

Monday, January 24, 2011

ARTIST STATEMENT

I paint as a means of staying connected to my spirit, my ancestors and the world around me. My work is charged with unpredictable but intentional brush strokes, color, and cartoon like facial features, simple shapes and spray-painted contours. Each painting is meant to capture the essence of the subjects I paint using black urban interpretations of cubism and impressionism. My experiences that are real or imagined, circumstances that I have lived through or been told about allow me to breath a since of life and trueness into each piece. I am constantly moved by the ever-changing energy that surrounds me as an artist, as a woman, as a black woman. My paintings are reflections of mental notes, personal challenges with ridicule, abandonment and rejection. These are not visions or dreams or an indirect picture of an African religion and this is not my interpretation of traditional African art. I use acrylic, spray paint, and oil pastels to paint large images of mask like portraits on raw canvas, stretched canvas and found street objects to draw attention to the untapped, under recognized and underrepresented spirit of Black People.

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

PRINCE OF COLOUR IS ON DISPLAY!

The FIRST 20
www.thefirst20.com
The Gallery Bar
WED. DEC. 1. 7-11pm

120 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002
(212) 529-2266

RIVERS OF HONEY
59-61 E 4th st between 2nd ave and the Bowery. 6 to astor place or Fto 2nd Ave.
FRI. DEC.3

THE SHRINE
FEATURED ARTIST!
2271 Adam Clayton Powell Jr Bl
New York, NY 10030-3003
(212) 690-7807

SMALL CHAT WITH THE ARTIST @ 6pm
TUE. DEC. 7

Hey art lovers,

Try to make it out to one of these ART SHOWS.....Im showing new work at the SHRINE...."Warrior in Blue" is on display this Wed at the Gallery Bar...and my latest piece at Rivers in Honey...you DONT want to MISS THIS!!!