writing

Gwynedd Tremblay’s background includes 12 years of theatre work as a designer and actor in Atlanta, GA., a recent degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Painting and Video, and a history of involvement with activism. He is a member of the Chicago Artists' Coalition, and has been exhibiting as an artist for the past four years. His work is investigating the space where the political and the personal coincide, and speaks about his experience of queerness. He believes that the unique personal experience should be used as a starting to examine larger, more universal issues.

Having a special interest in Route 66, He has been investigating the relationship of the United States with the “Mother road”. He believes the constuction of this now mostly abandoned highway marks a watershed in the American psyche between the last traces of frontier mentality and industrial claustrophopia. His work is influenced by his reading of Bachelard (The Poetics of Space), Baudrillard ( The Hyper-realism of Simulation), and the poetry of Mary Oliver.