Quintessa Matranga
At the center of Matranga’s current practice is a renewed embrace of painting as part of everyday life. Her works draw on fleeting moments—glimpses of leisure, observation, and pause—that become starting points for painterly exploration. Figures and forms are depersonalized and gently abstracted; specificity blurs, leaving behind images that are more open-ended than declarative. This shift marks a move away from her earlier, more conceptual paintings toward a language that is lyrical, intuitive, and inclusive, where humor, intimacy, and atmosphere unfold through process rather than statement.
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