Gimme Some Sugar

(Hardback)

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Rooted in her 1980s New York City upbringing and strong spirituality, artist Genesis Tramaine imbues her abstract portraits of men and women with a transcendent emotion, devotion, and soundless musicality, borne from rhythmic brushstrokes and a visceral use of chromatic color. She seeks, at once, to represent and universalize the humanness of the American Black face by obscuring the specificity of individual features, choosing instead to portray the inner turmoil and inner joy of one s mind and being.

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Genesis Tramaine was born in Brooklyn, New York, and earned her MS from Pace University and BS from Utica College of Syracuse University. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, and is represented by Almine Rech Gallery.

Alexandra M. Thomas is a scholar and writer with a PhD from Yale University in the History of Art and African American Studies.