Patricia Van Dalen (Maracaibo, 1955) is a Venezuelan visual artist based in Miami. Her practice spans painting, collage, and assemblage, extending into site-specific work — ephemeral interventions and permanent architectural integrations — across residential, institutional, and urban settings. By the 1990s, she had consolidated a position within Venezuelan contemporary art. JardÃn LumÃnico (2004–2005), a 1,200-square-meter ceramic-tile mural along the Autopista Prados del Este in Caracas, operates at an urban scale. Van Dalen’s work is organized around fragmentation, constraint, and variation, through a continuous exploration of materials, with color as a structural axis, deployed in relation to space and site.
