Primary Medium

Painting

Address

473 Porter Ave
Second floor, unit 14C
Brooklyn, 11211

Artist Statement

Strand’s paintings explore the sensory fields of land, sky, water, and the body — spaces where gesture, color, and breath converge. Through brushwork, line, and layered surfaces, form emerges intuitively, often suggesting terrain that is both landscape and flesh — atmosphere carries emotion. In her recent botanical cannabis series and smoking still lifes, Strand continues this inquiry into intimacy and perception. The plant is rendered not as an object but as presence, smoke becomes another kind of landscape: ephemeral, drifting, and bodily, echoing the rhythms of breath and release. Strand works primarily in acrylic, aerosol, charcoal and chalk pastel on canvas or board, allowing the materials to guide the process. She embraces accidents, unfinished edges, and impulsive marks as a way of discovering the painting rather than controlling it. Her work exists between realism and abstraction, where sensation takes precedence over representation. Ultimately, Strand’s paintings invite viewers inward — to inhabit the space between form and feeling, to breathe with the work, and to encounter landscapes as emotional and physical terrain.

Links

Website: https://frithastrand.com/
Instagram: @frthstrnd