NYC Mind
It was a great honor to find out that my work was featured on Edward Torres’ NYC Mind tumblr blog.
Category Archives: REVIEWS
Ken Ratner on Art of Patricia Melvin, 2010
If the spirit of Robert Henri, an artist who encouraged his students to look to the commonplace for inspiration, were to be conjured up today, I’m afraid he would be disappointed in what he would find. Too often, today’s artists do not look to their immediate surroundings and paint scenes of everyday life, as Henri
Artezine.com, Artezine No. 9 Street Verismo, 2003
“…I was especially taken with the paintings of Patricia Melvin. Her skies have a depth and joy. A smaller painting of Melvin’s was jewel-like…” – Robert Sievert, www.Artezine.com, Artezine No. 9 Street Verismo, 2003
The Waterbury Republican-American, Oct. 11, 2001
…”There [in Patricia’s paintings of NYC] the world is both large, and small, neighborly without being intrusive. In works like “Spring, East Village,” or “Jefferson Market, Summer”, an effervescent warmth shines through. Apple trees depend onto the warm bluish asphalt. Dogs and children frolic under the umbrella of traffic lights that stretch across the city
The Rivertowns Enterprise, March 31, 2000
…”There is a carefully modulated warm glow to all of her small oil paintings…Without being cute, she makes everything beautiful…She conveys the barren desolation…Her landmark sites are well chosen and well documented. With a strong sense of light and dark…” – Jackie Petrillo, The Rivertowns Enterprise, March 31, 2000, p.23
Tribeca Trib, May, 1999
“…Patricia Melvin paints small, jewel-like streetscapes…” Tribeca Trib, May, 1999, Vol. V, No.9.