Pedro Garcia Socorro
A Maze of Milieu
July 23 - August 13, 2010
Reception:
Thursday August 5, 2010 6-8 PM
Press Release
Whether in sharp still lifes, scintillating landscapes, or impressionistic nudes and portraits, the subject of Pedro Garcia Socorro’s oil paintings never changes. Each image, no matter how intimate or sprawling, is brought to life and given texture by the spectacular light that floods in and across the picture plane. Luminosity activates every surface and space in Socorro’s sensitive work, from glassy waters to snowy hillsides, or the tangled fabrics of a bed sheet. By freezing these fleeting moments and conveying their booming immediacy, he accentuates the captivating delicacy of the everyday.
“For me,” he writes, “those very moments of reflection preceding action are the ones that contain the substance of life.” That sensitivity to poise and potential is everywhere apparent in the Cuban-American, New Jersey-based artist’s work. Some canvases are filled with lush colors, while others are dominated by only a few browns, blues and off-whites, but in every case Socorro crafts an uncanny stillness that is never static, but rather abuzz with possibility.
Artist Statement
My artistic inclination is spread amongst the works of the Dutch Masters and the Paris school, but without ever becoming a really strong affiliation to any one school. Therefore, my own artistic process is varied, with toned canvases, different grounds, impasto, transparencies, sometimes a tonal arrangement rather than a color harmony, or vice versa. This is my own way of transforming my work day into a less boring and more varied one, through plenty of experimentation. My palette is rich in different colors. I like to use opaque and luminous colors (those like the Impressionists) and to modify and enrich them with the old Dutch master traditional earthy and transparent colors. I also use traditional or modern mediums, depending on my aim.
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