Studio Tumazi

Vivid colors. Bold narrative. StudioTumazi fuses the best of abstract art with the human need for meaning.



At its core, art is about telling a story, reducing experience, both subjective and inter-subjective, to an image. Some images are apparent: a portrait, a landscape, a still-life; others are abstract: a splash of red, a blue triangle, a series of green dots. Both the obvious and the obscure find their home in the Studio, as all works structure themselves in the style of what founder Nathan Tumazi calls "abstract narrativism." The Abstract Narrativist movement merges the patience and intricacy of apparent (or 'given') art---portraits, landscapes, still-lifes---with the quick gestures and spontaneous movements of abstraction. The resulting subject matter is neither purely abstract nor totally obvious; it is a combination allowing both immediate recognition (meaning) and opacity, or abstraction, left to each individual viewer to contemplate. In this way, an element of both inter-subjective meaning and subjective meaning emerge. A painting in the Studio may, for example, offer viewers imagery that appears simultaneously floral and figural, half-human, half-plant; some viewers may see only flowers, others only humans. The quick gestures and spontaneous movements of abstraction permit individual interpretation, while patient and intricate brushwork allow communal recognition of obvious subject matter. The point of the movement is, in the end, to honor both the conscious and the unconscious expression and appreciation of art; respecting the human brain-mind as an entity consciously searching for and in need of shared meaning or story, and an entity desiring the abstract expression of each particular unconscious.

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We hope you find all parts of yourself in the currently available material listed in the Gallery. Please reach out to us in the Contact section for further information on pricing, tours, and questions or comments.
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