(b. Los Angeles, USA).
Patssi Valdez obtained an A.A. from East Los Angeles College in California and a B.F.A. from Otis/Parsons School of Art and Design in Los Angeles, as well as from the Parsons School of Design in New York.
Her installations utilize iconography derived mainly from domestic or at least domesticated environments-interiors, gardens and scenic views. Her paintings from 1988 to the present transfer self-identity to everyday objects and domestic spaces. Her paintings of domestic interiors (los cuartos y la cocina) are rendered with distorting illusionism and a limited palette of saturated reds, yellows, greens and blues.
The artist has received awards from the Durfee Foundation (1999), the National Endowment for the Arts (U.S./Mexico Artist-in-Residence 1994), Art Matters Grant (1990), National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Painting (1989), Medal of Recognition, City of Nantes, France (1989), and the California Art Council Recipient for artist resid
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