BIO

Tina Chow Rudolf is a painter and multi-hyphenate creative, based in New Jersey. Influenced by her years of working across disciplines in the worlds of theater, social work, life-coaching, and entrepreneurship, Rudolf’s creative process explores the emotionality of the human experience and its drive towards self-knowledge and collective healing. She paints internal landscapes full of tension and flow that is both considered and playful. Contrasting colors, marks, shapes, and textures convey the depths and dichotomies of being alive. She holds a BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts and an MSW from Fordham University. She is the founder of Strange Bird and Gaia and Rudy’s mother.  

STATEMENT

I create emotional landscapes to put into physical form the energetic world within. My process is a spiritual journey of understanding myself in this body and this world. I use my intuition to guide me and push through the internal dialogue that blocks and threatens the fluid relationship I am creating with myself and my work. I employ symbols, patterns, and contrasts as a way to simultaneously disrupt and mirror the organic experience of humanity. The relationship between the mediums and textures serves as a conduit of harmony, discord, transcendence, and integrity. The drive to be fully expressed and create spaces of catharsis and attunement guide my practice—if we do not know how we feel, how then can we know who we are?