PATRICIA ZARATE | Dyads | AL’S OFFICE
April 21 - May 31, 2024
I am interested in exploring the perception of color and light through simple abstract shapes. My ideas evolve through sensory observations, memory, nature, and art. I use minimalist and conceptual approaches such as pairing, seriality, pattern, repetition, and uniformity. The diptychs in The Story of [color] investigate the relationship between two colors through overlapping diamond shapes.
Patricia Zarate is a visual artist whose work has been exhibited in the United States and internationally. She was awarded a fellowship at Bau Institute artist residency, Otranto, Italy in 2013 and she was the recipient of an individual artist support grant from the Queens Council on the Arts in 2004. Her work has been reviewed in BmoreArt, Artnexus, Art News, Newsday, and the Philadelphia Weekly. In 2013, Patricia co-founded Key Projects: an art space, devoted to creating dialogue and community with artists and the public through group exhibitions. She received a MFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Born in Cali, Colombia, she currently lives and works in New York City.
PATRICIA ZARATE | Five Corners
January 9 - February 19, 2016
Opening Reception: January 7th, 6-9pm
Five Corners is a site-specific installation that engages the room’s architecture with an exploration of primary and secondary colors. Reflected Agenda references the Colombian flag, which consists of three bands of color: yellow, blue and red. Hung in the corners of the room, its three vertical paintings cast reflected glows on the walls. Also included is Triangular Mix, a work that reconfigures a rectangle into two triangles of secondary colors folded into the corners.
Born in Colombia, Patricia Zarate has an MFA from The Pratt Institute and is a 2004 recipient of an Individual Artist Support Grant from the Queens Council on the Arts. She has exhibited widely in the US and internationally and her work has been reviewed in ArtNexus, ArtNews, Newsday and the Philadelphia Weekly. In 2013 Zarate co-founded Key Projects, an art space devoted to creating dialogue and community with other artists through group exhibitions. She currently lives and works in New York City.