Flor Echevarria

The worlds that the Argentinean artist Flor Echevarria crafts out of carefully applied, gentle and precise acrylic compositions are playful, lush, mysterious and intriguing. There’s a tactile, three-dimensional quality to her shiny, geometric still lifes, landscapes and nature scenes that evokes the shimmering surfaces of Henri Rousseau or Fernand Leger, though Echevarria’s color palette is practically Fauvist. Every element is saturated with color and texture. Embedded into most of her works are all manner of patterns, sequences and series – waves, flowers, rooftops, sun rays – giving many paintings a musical sense of cascading rhythms.