Tana Vivian

Curiosity of emotion, story, color play inspire my portraits and abstracts.

Often the driving passion behind my work is some random social injustice that's been silenced to the public and finds me stuck with sadness, anger and a deep sense of hope. In my work there's a marriage between art and emotion that I'm still trying to figure out. For some reason the two get tied together and the merging is why I paint.

Illusion- that concept of color in distance- played within each piece, is my intrigue as a painter. My work is not the same up close as in distance and I enjoy this merging, this struggle where illusion allows an unfinished piece to become complete. It's the simple thing- layers- emotion- color pairings- that complete each piece and somehow, also, make it never the same when looked at twice.