James Siena, Trectiuff

James Siena is a New York-based artist. His rule-based linear abstractions have situated him firmly within the trajectory of modern American art. His artwork is driven by self-imposed sets of “visual algorithms,” which find their end-result in intensely concentrated results. He works across a diverse range of media, including lithography, etching, woodcut, engraving, drawing, and painting. His work is held in numerous public and private collections across the United States, including Museum of Fine Arts Boston; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art; and Whitney Museum of American Art, among many others. He has been the recipient of multiple honors and awards, including the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting (1994), The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Competition Award (1999), and an award in Art from The American Academy and National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York (2000).