MEET OUR 2026 SAN FRANCISCO ART FAIR ARTISTS
ROOM NO.
207
Wendy Trattner
Artist Bio When I was seven years old, my world shattered — I lost both of my parents in a sudden act of violence. There were no words big enough for that kind of grief, so I turned to the only thing that could express it: art. Painting became my survival, my language, my way to turn silence into color.
My work is abstract because grief is uncontainable. I pour it into explosive color, layered textures, and fluid movement — what I call “dopamine bombs” — bursts of energy that transform pain into vitality. Every canvas is a meditation on resilience: the tug between chaos and clarity, resistance and surrender, devastation and the stubborn will to create beauty anyway.
I studied engineering at MIT, so equations and physics often surface in my work—not as answers, but as hidden metaphors for life’s impossible questions. In the end, my art is about evolution, not erasure: how tragedy can expand into light, how loss can become movement, and how beauty can emerge from what breaks us.
When you stand in front of my paintings, I want you to feel that same pulse of optimism through hardship — a reminder that even in the darkest fractures, something radiant can still grow.