Patrick Dintino

Vapor Trail -abstract light pastel purple color strip oil painting

2015

Patrick Dintino paints vertical bands of glowing color in a horizontal or rectangular format that read as both a scientific representation of the spectrum and an emotional landscape of pure color.

Painted with oil on canvas mounted on wood board, the softly undulating stripes of light and dark generate their own kind of perceptual space, one that incorporates the naturally horizontal field of human vision. The titles of Dintino’s works — Eventide, Mirage, Ecstasy — allude to the subtle way remembered color is translated into an abstract configuration.

Born in San Francisco, California, Dintino grew up in Sunnyvale, in the South Bay Area. He went to college in San Diego, earning a BA degree in industrial arts from San Diego State University. He moved back to the Bay Area and earned a masters of fine art degree at the California College of Arts and Crafts (CCA) in San Francisco and Oakland in 2001.

Dintino was invited as a guest artist to work with Sol LeWitt to create “Sol LeWitt: A Retrospective” at SFMOMA. Since this time he was a finalist for SFMOMA’s SECA emerging artist award, and a Pollock/Krasner Foundation Grant recipient. His work is in numerous prominent private and corporate collections in the United States and abroad. He currently teaches painting at California College of the Arts.

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(Biography provided by Muriel Guépin Gallery)