Tricia has always seen the world through the lens of form, surface, and the particular weight a well-designed object carries. A Los Angeles-based artist and curator, her work lives at the intersection of material intuition and collected history. Working in oil paint and handmade Japanese textured paper, she builds abstract compositions that feel simultaneously vintage and immediate — layered surfaces that reward close looking.
Her practice grew organically from a lifelong attunement to objects: the way a piece carries memory, the tension between what something was made to be and what it becomes over time. Her paintings and collages began as a private response to a curatorial question she kept returning to: what does the right piece of art do to a vintage postmodern chair, or a lamp sourced from the other side of the world? Central to that answer is color — Tricia has a rare instinct for how hues speak to one another across a room, and her abstract works are composed with that conversation in mind, each palette chosen in deliberate dialogue with the furniture and objects they are made to accompany.
That same eye informs her sourcing of furniture and objects from around the world, and increasingly, the two pursuits have converged. Tricia creates work specifically to exist alongside the pieces she curates — paintings and collages that don't decorate a room so much as complete a conversation already in progress.
