An MIT engineer turned artist, creating meaning on the canvas through physics & feeling. Collected by CEOs, entrepreneurs, athletes, engineers, and designers worldwide.
Hi! I’m Wendy Trattner!
I'm a contemporary abstract artist based in Scottsdale and San Francisco. My work explores entropy, emotion, and purpose.
My path to painting wasn't direct. Facing significant loss and instability early in life, I found refuge in logic and reason, eventually earning a degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and building a career in sustainable tech startups.
I’d learned to suppress my emotions to survive, but they never disappeared. For years I painted on the side as a form of self-healing, torn between two worlds. Until I realized art wasn’t a hobby - it was my life force. So I made the decision to leave tech to pursue art full time.
In a universe governed by chaos and randomness, I choose to direct my emotion into beauty - an act of turning entropy into intention. My work captures the entrepreneurial and creative spirit of resilience: the ability to pull optimism from hopelessness, and opportunity from defeat.
Each painting is a container for emotion ready to burst through the canvas - a journey traced through hidden messages, physics equations, journaled text, and asemic writing beneath layers of pigment.
In 2024, I took the leap and left engineering to pursue art full-time.
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