Patricia Secco
Patricia Secco initiated her painting studies in Rio de Janeiro. In 1990 she moved to Washington D.C. where she enrolled in the Corcoran Institute of Art, Georgetown University. She then studied at the Rockville Art Center and later improved her techniques in watercolor, acrylics and oil with artists Bill Newman, Kathy Blosson and Ellen Burgoyne.
Patricia Secco's beautiful color surfaces reminiscent of silky, luscious fabrics where color is never what we think, and their values depend on the direction and quality of light affecting them. These backgrounds capture the eye's attention of the natural ease with which they are organized. Against these pools of color, she sometimes juxtaposes abstract symbols that, at first glance, give us the impression that the painting stops there. But even in those paintings that appear to be abstract, which I understand she has constructed as landscapes, and among all her works are my personal favorites, color is not the only presence inhabiting the painting. Imprecise, sign-like color strokes, like mumbling words lay beneath the layers of material. One's eye wanders through them attempting to decipher their unfamiliarity, as when lost with no other reference in the woods.
Felix Angel
(Curator and the general coordinator of
the Cultural Center of IDB, in Washington, and the editor for the Latin American
art section of the Library of Congress of the USA.)
"Sunset" Acrylic on canvas 24X36
"Flighty of the Dragon Flies" Acrylic on canvas 36X36
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