Geoffrey Detrani
C W O S ARTIST
Primary Medium: Paint
Other media: Drawing, Mixed media
Email: gdetrani (at) yahoo (dot) com
Website: http://www.geoffreydetrani.com
Artist Statement
My work is rooted in a sense of the natural world as construed by experience, imagination and ideology. The imagery I use explores a hypothetical intersection between the natural world and the physical world of our creating. I am interested in the tenuous and temporary fit with which the things we have built have accommodated themselves to the fecund and resurgent force of the natural world within which they are sited. My pictures suggest landscapes captured in a state of flux, landscapes on the cusp or in the throes of explosive generation or devolution, they are geographies of entropy and zero-sum gain.
Other media: Drawing, Mixed media
Email: gdetrani (at) yahoo (dot) com
Website: http://www.geoffreydetrani.com
Artist Statement
My work is rooted in a sense of the natural world as construed by experience, imagination and ideology. The imagery I use explores a hypothetical intersection between the natural world and the physical world of our creating. I am interested in the tenuous and temporary fit with which the things we have built have accommodated themselves to the fecund and resurgent force of the natural world within which they are sited. My pictures suggest landscapes captured in a state of flux, landscapes on the cusp or in the throes of explosive generation or devolution, they are geographies of entropy and zero-sum gain.
Selected Works
|  The Second Day in Day - 2010 - Pencil, Acrylic on paper - 32x56” - $200.00  Semephore Land - 2010 - Pencil, Acrylic on paper - 34x58”  Partition - 2010 - Pencil, Acrylic on paper - 34x58”  Full Spectrum Dominion - 2010 - Pencil, Acrylic on paper - 34x58”  Heaving Spring, Cleaving Day - 2010 - Pencil, Acrylic on paper - 32x56”  Land And Sky's Conjugal Parcel - 2010 - Pencil, Acrylic on paper - 32x56”  Under Its' Blossoming Aegis - 2010 - Pencil, Acrylic on paper - 32x56”  Landscape With Trophies - 2009 - Pencil, acrylic, ink on paper mounted to panel - 36x35"  Siege Engine - 2009 - Pencil, acrylic, ink on paper mounted to panel - 24x52"  Souvenirs & Barricades - 2009 - pencil, ink, acrylic on paper mounted to panel - 36x48 |
Artist Bio
Geoffrey Detrani is a visual artist and writer whose work has been exhibited in New York, Los Angles, Boston and South Korea. His artists' books are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His paintings are in the collections of the Schenectady Museum, the Transportation Security Administration and various private collections. In 1999 – 2000 he was an artist in residence at the former World Trade Center with a studio on the 91st. Floor. He is the recipient of grants and awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, the Brooklyn Arts Council, the Bronx Museum, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, the State University of New York Foundation, the Center for Book Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. His poetry has appeared in Aufgabe, Crowd, New Orleans Review, New Delta Review, Massachusetts Review, First Intensity, Epiphany, 14 Hills, Parthenon West Review, Black Warrior Review, Red China, 6x6, Fence, Canary, Tarpaulin Sky, Danse Macabre, Fringe, Eleven Bulls, and Action, Yes. His a contributing writer for the New Haven Advocate and a teacher in New Haven, CT