ARTIST STATEMENTPatrick DeAngelis is an oil painter based in Southern California, whose work explores light and color harmonies within vast atmospheric spaces. California is home to a luminous visual field, a vast and expansive landscape defined by its oceans, deserts, and mountains. Between the margins of these geographic landmarks lies the most subtle and distinct feature, the interaction of light, moisture, air and space. It is here, somewhere between abstraction and representation where DeAngelis' subject lies. Stripping the landscape of shape, line, and texture, formal elements that help articulate representational identity, he reveals only color, tone, and a singular suggestive line. His landscapes are a study of light: the subtle transitions and translucent effects. "Painting allows me to be an inventor of an imaginary landscape within each piece, and write my poem about this beautiful place in paint."- Patrick DeAngelis ABOUTBorn and raised in Northeast Ohio, Patrick DeAngelis studied painting under artist Fredrick Graff and earned an MFA at the New York Academy of Art. His early works, composed on large birch panels explore hazy mountain vistas revealed though thin oil glazes. In these works, the viewer enters soft, tonally structured landscapes painted to evoke a sense of stillness, calm and wonder. Searching for new inspiration and an opportunity to mature his style, DeAngelis relocated to Southern California in 2019. The drive west made an immediate impression as the desert and ocean became leading subjects to explore light, color and space, a new palette emerged, alongwith a further step toward abstraction and additional sensitivity to light and color. His most recent work strips the landscape of shape, line, and texture, formal elements that help articulate representational identity, in turn revealing only color, tone, and a singular suggestive line. The title of the series is called The Horizontal Line, which refers to the horizon, a single modernist line in an infinitely busy, ever-changing and complex natural world. DeAngelis currently lives and works in San Diego, CA.