EFA STUDIO PROGRAM: Member Artists
Patty Cateura
To counteract the passive intake of images that bombard us daily, my paintings entice the viewer to slow down, pause and engage. Even though I’m a born and raised NYC native, my art originates from observing and spending time in nature. Using flattened and juxtaposed abstract shapes of mountains, vistas, canyons, rivers and sea, color is precisely chosen and made from dispersion pigment. Perspective is vast and skewed within infinite expanses of monochromatic space. Occasional floating and fragmented geometric shapes allude to the man-made. Yet nature prevails in hills, trees, deserts, and pure color fields. Through the openness and seemingly emptiness of my compositions, I invite the viewer to find their way into this alternative place. I aim to evoke nature’s vibrancy, power, scale, and stillness as an arresting visual pause from the barrage of our media driven lives. The goal of my paintings is to ignite a connection with nature and a respect for our environment.
