Nicholas Tramontin

Born in San Francisco, raised in Marin County at the base of Mount Tamalpais, surrounded by massive redwood trees, Nick lusted after an urban landscape.  Always in trouble for making art instead of doing school work, Nick discovered a sense of freedom and passion for automobiles at a young age. During this time the surf, skate and graffiti culture was also emerging as a strong influential cultural force, calling Nick to Los Angeles. He uprooted and replaced 500-year-old redwoods with 100-foot-tall buildings. The new replaced the old, the fast replaced the slow, and Nick began creating unique works of art that moved you, fast.

Nick is driven by speed and movement. Riding a wave on a surfboard or shifting gears in a fast car, the connection to machines and unstoppable forces has always inspired his direction and his work. While his passion for beautiful turbo speed machines will always be a part of his framework and story, exploring the machine of the mind through his work allows him to have both movement and connection.  Through heartbreak and a deep romance with the darkness that lives within all of us, Nick finds the light in his work through the process of layering paint with brushes, spray paint and resin. His work combines abstract textures with a deconstructed graffiti street style. 

Each piece creates a loose barrier between light and darkness, moving from restriction to preservation of space, and sometimes filled with freeing chaos.  Other times, revealing portals to what feels like other dimensions.  This process avails the freedom to travel and transcend space and time, to rediscover the dark forest, where nothing is old or new, but in a perpetual state of change and rebirth. 

Nick’s pieces have been exhibited in Los Angeles, and included in many private collections.