Patricia Sonnino takes a contemporary approach to abstraction where the painting’s paradoxical ground is always in the process of taking flight and becoming other. Many different spaces with individual artistic languages inhabit her colorful layered works on wood panel. Hard edges meet and zoom off into soft ones, shallow spaces swerve into deep, and opaque colors collide with the luminous. The juxtaposition of these arrangements of diverse, self-contained spaces resemble a “still life” in flight. Patricia Sonnino holds an MA and BA in Architecture from Washington University in St. Louis, MO. She is based in San Francisco and exhibits nationally. Sonnino taught at the Boston Architectural Center and was a visiting artist at Fort Lewis College in Colorado and the University of Birmingham, UK. She has been awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT; Willapa Bay in southern Washington state; and PLAYA, Summer Lake, OR.