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LI TRINCERE (INVITED)
Li Trincere is a leading figure in contemporary geometric abstraction whose bold vision has defined her decades-long practice. Born in 1960 in New York City, Trincere emerged from the vibrant East Village scene of the 1980s, where she developed a distinctive visual language that fuses minimalism’s precision with painterly immediacy. Her early influences include reductive painters like Alan Uglow and Olivier Mosset, and she has exhibited widely at institutions such as Galerie Rolf Ricke (Cologne) and David Richard Gallery (New York), with works held in major collections including American Express, JP Morgan, and Chase Bank. She has received multiple Pollock-Krasner Foundation grants and a National Endowment for the Arts grant.
SELECTED WORKS
Negative space plays a crucial compositional role—within the painting and along its shaped perimeter—activating the surrounding wall as part of the work. In series like “Shards” and “Checks,” the interplay of extreme vector angles and reflective textures disrupts visual stability, enhancing depth and distortion.
Trincere’s paintings are deeply iterative. As she explains, “One painting generates another painting.” Each series grows from a focused exploration of surface, color, and proportion, and once the compositional possibilities have been exhausted, she transitions into a new visual inquiry. Her non-objective process draws influence from both visual perception and a broader conceptual vocabulary shaped by decades of experimentation.
WORKS ON PAPER
Drawings serve as the foundation of her practice. Created with Caran d’Ache wax crayon on BFK paper, these works explore similar compositional parameters—color, shape, balance, and proportion—but remain distinct from their painted counterparts. Not every drawing corresponds to a specific painting, but both evolve in tandem. The tactile softness of the crayon medium allows for unique surface treatments, but the full range of additive elements and visual depth is ultimately achieved in her paintings.
