TREMAIN SMITH (American, 20th century). Ancestral Presence, 2003, Mixed media (oil, wax, paper and collage) on board. Verso titled, signed, and dated.
ARTIST PROFILE: Tremain Smith has four works in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Her work is in corporate and private collections across the country. She has had dozens of solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Scottsdale, Maine, Delaware, Florida and Hawaii. Group exhibitions include SOFA Chicago, Art Miami, the Painted Bride, the Philadelphia Art Alliance, and the USArtists American Fine Art Show. Her work is included in Encaustic Art in the Twenty-First Century by Anne Lee & E. Ashley Rooney published by Schiffer Publishing, The Art of Encaustic Painting Contemporary Expression in the Ancient Medium of Pigmented Wax published by Watson-Guptill, and in the art journal New American Paintings. Smith studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Tyler School of Art, Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Pennsylvania. Alongside her studio practice, Tremain teaches, speaks, and leads workshops. She was a panelist at the Eighth International Encaustic Conference presenting on "The Roots of Contemporary Encaustic". She received a Teaching Artist Certificate from the University of the Arts in 2009, and has taught throughout her career in local schools, libraries, community and art centers in Philadelphia, where she lives and works, as well as in other parts of the county. - 50 x 64 inches Estimate $500-700
