Trinidad Pino
The Pathway to Abstraction
July 23 - August 13, 2010
Reception:
Thursday August 5, 2010 6-8 PM
Press Release
In the little fragments of nature that she isolates and brings to life – birds, flowers and insects – Trinidad Pino finds an immense wealth of colors, textures and character. The Miami-based Cuban-American painter captures her subjects with bold colors and expressive brush strokes that sometimes convey a child-like sense of excitement and discovery, or can conjure airs of mystery and otherworldliness. Her visions of nature are quirky, intriguing and playful, yet never sentimental or contrived.
By suggesting intimate details and subtleties, Trinidad explores a more organic relationship to the environment, one rooted in familiarity and interaction. However exotic or foreign, her subjects are immediately affecting, imbued with deeply resonant emotional traits and complexities. Flower petals sag as if fatigued by their thankless role in the ecosystem; some insects appear stiffly upright, as if buoyed by a sense of responsibility and moral duty. Her birds, many of them roosters, reveal a flair for the dramatic. Trinidad brings shading and an enveloping depth to every corner of nature.
Artist Statement
In the beginning of my career, after completing the program at the Fine Art School, I broke with the academy and followed a concrete expressionist style. Later, in the USA, I continued with my childhood “lei-motif”: insects, flowers and “fauna”. In brief, I began to focus on Nature, God’s book. I worked with a variety of mediums - for a while, watercolor or tempera on paper. I also produced works with mixed media, but my preference is for oil on canvas, though I also work in acrylic from time to time. I present an optimistic view of nature, showing its beauty and sharing the happiness it brings me with my viewers.
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