Artist Bio:

VERONICA TYSON-STRAIT

Born: San Fernando, Trinidad & Tobago
Lives: Harlem, NY

Education
The Cooper Union School of Art, BFA, 1995
The Edna Manley School of Visual Arts, Kingston, Jamaica, WI
The University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad, WI

Solo Exhibitions
2009 – Northeastern Exposure, The Avalon Gallery, 7 Holden Street, North Adams, MA
Group Exhibitions
2011 – Hamilton Landmark Gallery, New York, NY
2011 – Wish You Were Here, AIR Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011 – Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, NY
2011 – Dialogues, Taller Boricua Galleries
2010 – Harlem Arts Alliance Studio Tour, Work Space Gallery, NY
2010 – Casa Frela Gallery/ H&M Gallery, NY, Harlem Art Walking Tour
2010 – Rites of Passage, The Cooper Union School of Art, NY
2010 – BYOA, X Initiative, DIA Center of Art, NY
2009 – Generations 7, AIR Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2009 – Avalon Gallery, North Adams, MA
2009 – The Celestial Suitcase, 476 Jefferson Street #203 Brooklyn, NY
2009 – Morsel Remains, 37-06 36th Street, Long Island City, NY
2008 – Freeze Frame, The Thrust Project, New York, NY
2008 – Generations 6, AIR Gallery, New York, NY
2003 – The Hall of Art, Williamsburg, NY
1996 – A Large Show of Small Works, Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY

Awards
1990 -Two-year fine art fellowship, Kingston Jamaica. Offered by the Organization of American States

Collections
Robert Rindler (former Dean of the Cooper Union School of Art), NYC
Kingsley Cooper, Kingston, Jamaica
Frances Andersen, New York
Jeffery Farrell, Ashfield, MA

I paint because I am inspired by images created by natural phenomena and the physical world. Nature makes the most amazing marks, the details of which are indicators of the passage of time, space, movement and change. Our history, progress and transgressions are intertwined and recorded in layers of soil and like DNA, it is imprinted on the environment. I aim to capture and recreate something of the quality of natural marks and influence how they are perceived by the senses. I sometimes view my paintings as exercises in seeing and I use the details of natural objects to create images that seems large or deep and have the viewer think of the space created within the work and their relationship to it.

My work is influenced by nature, history, imagination, photographs, maps, scientific data and electronic renderings. Often my mark-making is repetitive and layered, both quick and deliberate creating dense a shallow spaces on various scales. My way of working embodies the sense of physicality and energy that is the basis of my paintings.