Patricia van Dalen
| Patricia Van Dalen | |
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| Born |
1955 Maracaibo, Venezuela  |
| Education | Graphic Design School |
| Occupation | Visual artist |
Patricia van Dalen (born 1955), is a renowned Venezuelan painter and visual artist.
Early life
Patricia van Dalen was born in Maracaibo, Venezuela. She graduated from high school in Caracas and went on to study graphic design in the Neumann Design Institute (Instituto de Diseño Fundación Neumann). Intermittently between 1980 and 1986, the artist trained and lived in Paris, while she worked with the renowned Israeli artist Yaacov Agam. Currently, she resides and works in Miami, FL, US.
Career
Van Dalen taught in the Design Institute Foundation and the Architecture School of the Central University of Venezuela. Since 1978 she has been part of a great variety of individual and collective art expositions, both in Venezuela and around the world.
Her work has been exhibited frequently in Venezuela and has received well-known local awards, and therefore her paintings are spread in both public and private collections. In 2011 Van Dalen earned the 2010 Established Artist AICA Award, from the International Association of Art Critics / Venezuela Chapter. Van Dalen's work has extensively contributed to mural art and artistic interventions in public spaces as well as private residences, like the Mural Jardín Lumínico in the Prados del Este Highway, Caracas, Venezuela. Her interest in the social dimension of artistic production has led her to frequently incorporating installations and other kinds of ephemeral works, into public spaces where the presence of art is not usually expected. Her work has been collected by institutions such as: Museum of Latin American Art, MoLAA, Los Angeles, CA; Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables, FL; Museo de Bellas Artes, Galería de Arte Nacional, and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, all of them in Caracas, Venezuela, among others.
Van Dalen had recently taken up photography again -a medium to which she associated herself during her formative years as a graphic designer- in order to develop the body of work that she displayed in Wynwood, Miami, in December 2013. In the course of this exploration, Van Dalen found ways to link up with motivating factors from her previous productions, as well as ways to unfold new strategies and artistic configurations that are distinct from the former.
In 2014, Van Dalen created Data Hall, a permanent installation for the University of Miami's Center for Computational Sciences. The mural consists of a set of motherboards, which originally formed a part of UM’s first supercomputer, named Pegasus. The boards were altered with plastic lacings that criss-cross and converge into nodes in a scale-free network. These drawings not only communicate Van Dalen's interest on new ways of making art by combining aesthetically compatible materials and thereby producing paradoxical images; they also aid her in the attempts to comprehend the concept of data processing in a tactile and visual manner.
After leading a versatile trajectory, she is currently preparing a body of work on paper to be exhibited at The Kampong Botanical Garden, in Coconut Grove, at the end of 2015.
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