About the Artist
Emma Trincal is a French-American painter born in Paris. She began painting in 1987 while teaching economics at Paris University. In 1989, she moved to New York to pursue a dual career as a painter and a journalist. In 2007, Ted Mann, Assistant Curator at the Guggenheim Museum picked her piece Composition for the 16th National Juried Show of the Art Center of New Jersey. Her painting “1961: New York,” was chosen by Thomas W. Lentz, director of the Harvard University Art Museums for exhibition at the Cambridge Art Association’s Prize Show. She won the Dorothy Malloy award from the Trenton City Museum in New Jersey. Emma Trincal has been showing her work in Europe, the U.S. and Latin America. She lives in Brooklyn. Artist Statement Colors play a significant role in the rhythm of my work, which has quickly evolved from figurative into Lyrical Abstraction. Selected Shows 2011-GALEX 45, 45th Annual Juried Exhibition, The Galesburg Civil Art Center, Galesburg, IL. 2010- Joe Cesar Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (Solo Show) 2007-Current: Represented by Joe Cesar Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2009 4th Annual Human Rights Exhibition, South Texas College Art Gallery, McAllen, TX and University of Monterrey, Mexico 2007 Juror Ted Mann, Assistant Curator-Collections, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City--National Juried Show of the Art Center of Northern New Jersey, New Milford, NJ 2007 Juror Thomas W. Lentz, Director of the Harvard University Art Museums for the Cambridge Art Association's National Prize Show 2007 Shop & Talk Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2006 BWAC Group Show- Brooklyn Working Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY 2006 Micro Museum Brooklyn, NY (Solo Show) 2006 Juror Bernard Chaet, Professor of Painting Emeritus Yale University School of Art.- Selected work for the Creative Arts Workshop: Particular Plances: A National Exhibition, New Haven, CT 2006 Art Gotham Chelsea, New York City (Group Show) 1995 Alliance Française, Miami, FL (Tropicalis; Solo Show) 1995 Victoria Gallery (Curator: Barbara G. Losman; Member of the Beck Group) 1995 Multifocus International 95, New York-Collaborative exhibition between the Council on the Arts for Clinton County for the Arts and SUNY Plattsburg Art Museum-Jury: James Cox; Carol Solomon Kiefer; Frank Larson. 1995 La Bohême Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Coral Gables, FL (Curator: Ivan Hanuszkiewicz) 1994 Coconut Grove Gallery (Curator Sheila Kuhn) 1991 Art 97 Gallerie, Paris, France (Curator Jean-Claude Mayerowitz 1991 Trenton City Museum: Winner of the Dorothy Malloy Award; Competition Ellarslie, Trenton, NJ)- Jury Tom Moran: Visual Art Coordinators: N.J. Council on the Arts); Curator J Duncan Laplante PRIVATE COLLECTION * Elton John Aids Foundation—Action Aids, Philadelphia * American Cancer Society- Pink & Tie Gala Auction May 2009 Affiliations The Saatchi Gallery, London, U.K
Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition-BWAC, Brooklyn, NY
Micro Museum, Brooklyn, NY
White Columns, New York, NY
Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn, NY Education Art Student League of New York City 2006, 2007 and 2010
Emma Trincal In Her Own Words: From Paris to Miami to Brooklyn: My Place in the World
I was born in Paris.
At the age of 14,during a trip to Spain, I encountered three masters in the Prado Museum, who made an unforgettable impression on me: Goya, Velasquez and Caravaggio. Trips to the Mediterranean during childhood also inspired my relationship with colors and movement. But it was not until the age of 24, following a winter’s journey to Egypt, and having seen the colorful paintings inside the tombs of the Pyramids, that I began to paint.
Duality is key to my work and my life: I am a writer and a painter; a journalist and an artist.
Living in three cities, Paris, Miami and New York, I have been infused with three cultures – the European, the Latin and the North American. They each have their own special light. They each have their own color, their own mood, their own rhythm
Painting is both creation and destruction, to me. It’s the brush and the knife. It’s a fragile balance between making things happen and putting an end to it. And yet, I never destroy my paintings. They are transformed. The outcome has to make sense to me as an organization of space. Soon new relationships emerge between forms, colors, and movement. The rhythm permeates the canvas.
Velocity of execution is my ally. Randomness and hesitations may abound. But I know that things will fall into place eventually. This confidence is my strength. It’s my place in the world.
