In a universe governed by chaos and randomness, I choose to direct my emotion into beauty - an act of turning entropy into intention. I want you to feel beauty pulled from the ugly, optimism pulled from hopelessness, resilience pulled from defeat.
Hi! I’m Wendy Trattner!
I'm a contemporary abstract artist based in Scottsdale, Arizona. My work explores entropy, emotion, and the search for meaning.
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 emotion in order to survive - but it never disappeared. It buried itself deep inside until it found its way onto canvas.
For years, I painted on the side, feeling torn between two worlds. Eventually, I realized art wasn't a hobby - it was my life force. I made the decision to leave tech and pursue art full time, and today I channel that same drive for order and understanding into my work. Not to explain the chaos, but to transform it into something beautiful and meaningful.
My work is characterized by bold color and contrast, gestural brushstrokes, and a union of fluidity and structure. Each painting is a container for emotion long suppressed and 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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