The dimension listed includes a Plexi Glass frame The plexi is 1/8″ greater on all sides of the dimension listed. The profile dimension of the artwork is 2″. The artwork is preserved with a UV finish for the protection of the chalk and charcoal for lasting beauty.

This piece challenged me in many ways. My new works attempt to push the boundaries of my materials but specifically how light works which for me has been an important idea over the past year. Finding a path forward with the situations and people that mean the most is at the core of this body of work.

In his newest series, Refugia, Anthony Tremmaglia explores ideas of regeneration, hopefulness, and solace to tell a story of survival.

Refugia are bio-environments that support small populations of once-widespread species, spanning millennia as habitats to which elements of life retreat under environmental strain.

In the new works, Tremmaglia’s distinctive landscape figurations in paint and charcoal are evolved through a more layered, complex, and intimate rendering process. The artist varies his treatment of intertwining stone to suggest a deeper confluence of land and body and introduces white chalk that echoes works of the early Renaissance. He infuses bright, rich, contemporary jade and emerald colors to accentuate a previously muted palette.

In nature, and in affairs of the human heart, survival often necessitates reinvention in near-continuous states of flux. Be they mediations on perseverance or the nature of change, the works in Refugia reside at the fluid intersection of the organic and the unyielding, at the axis of time and timelessness.