Elizabeth Tremante, FINAL GIRLS, solo exhibition coming up soon. Stay tuned!

Steeped in horror, literature, satire and an insistence on drawing; FINAL GIRLS builds a world where vulnerable teens, women, children, disabled people and parents are unwittingly locked in mortal combat with the violent forces of art history. The curated exhibitions depicted in Tremante’s paintings contain her doctored versions of existing masterworks from Western art history, calibrated to propose a different perspective. The relationships between the artworks and the people who populate the galleries mirror the overlapping realities of pregnancy, violence and vulnerability in both historical and contemporary political environments. 

Tripping and falling into the fantastical space of the paintings, Tremante delights in concocting the sticky frictions that happen when humor interrupts the madness and monumentality of art history.  Drifting on an axis from panic to exuberance, the figures in Tremante’s paintings shimmer with an ungoverned spirit of another kind: they vomit, bleed, weep, conspire, play, read and dream in the types of art spaces that demand silent reverence.  

Elizabeth Tremante:  (born 1967, Boston) is a Los Angeles based artist and painter who earned her MFA in painting from Stanford University in 1999 and her BA in English Literature from Union College. Tremante learned how to read by sounding out words in MAD Magazine with father. Her love of political cartoons and satire as a teen were the onramp to the dark kind of humor that is an entry to point to her new work. Her paintings are like tripping and falling into a parallel world of an awkward but violent eternal present. Vulnerable adolescents, children and women act out and are acted upon by poetic, painterly and historical narratives within the provocative world of the paintings. Tremante’s work ranges from performance art to painting. She performed with The Elizabeths and the LA Art Girls in places including The Getty Museum and Track 16. Her paintings have been featured in numerous exhibitions at Spinello Projects Miami, Provincetown Area Art Museum,The Tack Room, The Situation Room, Jancar Gallery and Christopher Grimes Gallery. Tremante was awarded the Sustainable Art Award, The Puffin Foundation Grant for Artists and the The Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant, which included an exhibition at the Provincetown Area Art Museum. Her 2023 solo booth with Spinello Projects at Expo Chicago was called a “discovery” by Eileen Kinsella for Artnet.

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