About Elaine Fraticelli

Artist Statement

My work is a mixture of connections joining logic and emotions, reconstructing adversity in engaging and unfamiliar ways. Using different styles of art to push the boundaries of visual understanding, I illustrate the connection between the infinite expanse of nature and all the complexities of humanity. The resulting images are beautiful, evocative, unsettling, and cathartic all at once.

What keeps us going through the insurmountable pain of loss? Questioning what gives us hope, I combine images of current events and personal emotions, with natural symbols and beauty to explore grief and love. Realism and abstraction mix in unique ways with textural undertones. Expressive paint emphasizes natural beauty in these potent compositions. Images of struggle or decay become tangible in this visual exploration; searching for breath, unfathomable love, resilience, and community.

Biography

Elaine Fratielli learned to love art from her grandmother Judy at an early age and used it to process difficult events through her adolescence. She graduated from the University of Montana in 2016 with her BFA and lofty goals of someday exhibiting at the Venice Biennale to influence and heal the world with her art. Facing personal insurmountable grief soon after, her work and life became heavily political and she began applying psychological therapies to her art practice. After a calendar year of personal activism and grief for Palestine she was drawn to the question of human resilience and the insane human power of survival. Using the ability of art and media to access subconscious emotions, Fraticelli invites us to witness our own grief and hold it as proof we are capable of unfathomable love as we move forward; together.

“Art is a wound turned into light.”
~ Georges Braque