In his newest series, Refugia, Anthony Tremmaglia explores ideas of regeneration, hopefulness, and solace to tell a story of survival.

Refugia are bio-environments that support small populations of once-widespread species, spanning millennia as habitats to which elements of life retreat under environmental strain.

In the new works, Tremmaglia’s distinctive landscape figurations in paint and charcoal are evolved through a more layered, complex, and intimate rendering process. The artist varies his treatment of intertwining stone to suggest a deeper confluence of land and body and introduces a white chalk that echoes works of the early Renaissance. He infuses bright, rich, contemporary jade and emerald colours to accentuate a previously muted palette.

In nature, and in affairs of the human heart, survival often necessitates reinvention in near-continuous states of flux. Be they mediations on perseverance or the nature of change, the works in Refugia reside at the fluid intersection of the organic and the unyielding, at the axis of time and timelessness.

Education
Advanced Illustration, Honours, Sheridan College , Toronto Canada
Graphic Design, Honours, Algonquin College, Ottawa Canada


Solo Show
Hard to Find, Ottawa Art Gallery OAG, Galerie Annexe, Ottawa, ON January 10th 2019 until February 17th 2019

Group Show
Other Art Fair: Saatchi presents: EXPO Center, Brooklyn New York, United States, November 7th to 11th 2019

Group Show
Art Palm Beach,Contemporary, Palm Beach, Florida, United States, in collaboration + STEIDEL CONTEMPORARY, January 30th to February 3rd 2020

Palm Beach Modern , Palm Beach, Florida, United States, in collaboration + STEIDEL CONTEMPORARY, March 24th - 27th 2022 Artist in Attendance


Art Vancouver, Vancouver Convention Center, May 5th - 8th 2022 Artist in attendance

Forthcoming:

Design Shanghai, Shanghai China Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Center in collaboration with Debut Studio, October 2022