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 the European tradition of Abstract Expressionism.
I started painting in Paris at age 24, after a winter journey to Egypt, when discovering the colorful paintings inside the tombs of the pyramids. Trips during to the Mediterranean during my childhood, have definitely inspired me as well.
What I truly like about painting is that I can add more and more layers and suddenly annihilate most of it. There is no regret, no fear to fail. Addition, subtraction: the sum should be zero. But it’s not. Everything starts from there, everything arises from that very short-lived vacuum. Soon new relationships emerge between forms, colors, movements. The rythme penetrates the canvas.
Duality is a key word in my work as well as in my life: writing and painting; Europe and America.
Living in three cities, Paris, Miami and New York, I have been infused with three cultures: the European, the Latin and the American cultures. They each have their own special light.
Selected Shows
2010 Joe Cesar Gallery, Solo Exhibition, 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
- Prof. Frank O'Cain (Abstract painting)
- Prof. Mariano del Rosario (Collage and Assemblage)
