Patricia Rubio Spanish

Inspired by the vibrancy of her birth city Madrid and the bright colors of San Francisco, Patricia Rubio’s work focuses on geometrical structures. She is interested in the relationship between shapes and colors as they relate to emotions. She creates geometrical constructions as a way to organize her thoughts and memories into compositions that are articulations of her feelings. Each painting is a meditation on how shapes fit together and the potential for each one to form a new mass. Her work is bright, playful and joyous, much like Patricia herself. She begins each work with an emotion or thought which she associates with a color or shape. These thoughts are transformed into a “whole world of imaginary, geometric constructions and color compositions.” Rubio's work becomes a form of visual storytelling as she explores her memories. She says, “The balance and connection between shadows, symmetries, and stacking shapes is similar to how we construct thoughts and ideas in our mind.”

Rubio has received her B.F.A. from the University Complutense, Madrid, Spain in 2009, and her MFA in Serigraphy and Lithography from CIEC Foundation, Galicia, Spain in 2010. Her work has been exhibited throughout Europe and the USA. Patricia Rubio currently resides in San Francisco, CA as a visual artist and freelance designer. Rubio also is a Visual Arts Instructor at Creativity Explored in San Francisco.