Patrick DeAngelis makes paintings that ask very little of the viewer, and that is their particular intelligence. A horizon, a colour, a quality of light: the work reduces landscape to its most elemental components until what remains is not a place but a feeling of being in one.
Born in Northeast Ohio and shaped by the mountain light of his early career, he relocated to Southern California in 2019, and the desert and ocean have since pulled his palette warmer and his forms further toward abstraction.
Working in oil on panel and canvas, DeAngelis builds his surfaces through layered glazes, thin films of colour applied one over another to produce depth and luminosity that flatly reproduced images fail to convey. His most recent work strips away line, shape, and texture entirely, leaving only tone and a single suggestive horizon.
He holds an MFA from the New York Academy of Art and has exhibited with Lanoue Gallery in Boston, Slate Contemporary at Seattle Art Fair, and Kennedy Contemporary in Newport Beach.
He lives and works in San Diego, and is worth seeing in person.
