Patricia Van Dalen (b. Maracaibo) is a key figure in Venezuelan art of the 1980s and 1990s, with a practice spanning over four decades. An interdisciplinary artist, she explores color, structures, systems, and fragmentation through painting, collage, assemblage, and large-scale permanent and ephemeral projects integrated with natural and built environments. Her mural JardÃn LumÃnico (2004–2005) in Caracas exemplifies her synthesis of abstraction and urban space. Since relocating to the U.S., her work engages with bureaucratic, spatial, and material conditions, developing a visual language of adaptation, continuity, and the poetics of restriction, with color as a unifying thread.
