| PAT De CARO Born and raised in Philadelphia, Pat De Caro attended drawing classes as a child at the Fleisher Art Memorial school. She studied art, dance, and philosophy at Temple University and received a B.A. in 1973. She later moved to Seattle to pursue painting at the University of Washington and received a M.F.A. in 1982. During this period she studied with Joan Brown during a Masters Painting workshop at Centrum, Port Townsend on a Ford Foundation grant. After graduate school she lived and painted in Italy from 1983 to 1985 on a Fulbright Hays Fellowship. In Italy she researched paintings by Italian masters such as Giotto and Piero della Francesca, she later maintained a studio in Milan. De Caro has been an artist in residence at the Mac Dowell Colony in New Hampshire and the Ragdale Foundation Colony outside Chicago. She was a visiting artist at the Brandywine Workshop in Philadelphia. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Pat De Caro’s current show brings together paintings and drawings from two very different perspectives that share a deceptively simple monochromatic sensibility. De Caro began working in oil paint on glassine for a series of paintings depicting the imagined fears and ambivalence of the child’s universe. She uses layers of fragile, translucent glassine paper to create imagery that is both hidden and revealed, relating visual fragments in a way where time, space and objects shift. De Caro’s figures live in a world as immaterial as the reflections in a mirror, a world we sometimes feel we share. The present show includes two recent paintings from this poignant series on childhood as well as new ink drawings that extend De Caro’s repertoire in a more humorous—if somewhat unsettling—vein. In these darkly funny pieces, De Caro's masterful drawing is turned full bore on the subject of television's place in modern life. Her iconic silhouettes, delicately brushed onto seemingly ephemeral tracing paper, long remain in the mind to haunt the viewer. De Caro’s last solo show at the Seders gallery was in 2004. Since that time she has had one-person exhibitions in Milan, Italy and Düsseldorf, Germany. | ||||||||||||||||||
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