Patricia van Dalen

Patricia van Dalen (born in 1955 in Venezuela, with Dutch roots) is a Miami-based visual artist with a career that spans over forty years, dedicated to abstract painting, sculptural and ephemeral site-specific installations, and designing artworks for public and private architectural spaces.

Van Dalen also has extensive work in private residences in Venezuela and the US, where she has intervened on walls, ceilings, rooftops, pool areas, and floors as part of these places' interior and landscape design.

Her interest in the social dimension of artistic production has led her to frequently incorporate installations and other kinds of ephemeral works into public spaces.

The explorations with this medium that Van Dalen employed in her studies in the '70s have led her to find new ways to link up with her previous productions, unfolding new artistic configurations that are distinct from the former.

These drawings not only communicate Van Dalen's interest in new ways of making art by combining aesthetically compatible materials and thereby producing paradoxical images; they also aid her in her attempts to comprehend the concept of data processing in a tactile and visual manner.