Artworks from Patricia Frida

Her places of life are far away from each other. She is a time traveller with many different lives. Her dreams of this life become the subjects of her paintings. As a make-up artist in Paris, as a fashion photographer in Tokyo or as an artist in New York, faces, especially women's faces, were always important and inspired her works. This world lies beyond our physical perception. By making these unknown spatial forms visible, the artist not only takes us to an un-place or a nowhere, but also causes restlessness, melancholy and forlornness. These perceptual feelings are strengthened by the seemingly non-existent factor of time. Almost as if time stood still, as if all external life had passed. The faces look away and yet insistently into a wide space consisting of arranged areas of colour.

Patricia Frida works primarily in mixed media. Collages, Photoshop, various types of paper, incorporated leaves that she received as a gift from India from Bodh Gaya, the Buddha's tree of enlightenment. Old postcards, torn down posters, cut out maps, old books, gold leaves from Thailand: endless, lost and found stories.
 
Their journeys are immortalised, words that can no longer be read because they have been revised, they are put out as messangers. Patricia Frida is convinced that when the time comes, they will find their place or be found and chosen. There are no coincidences. ABRAKADABRA comes from the Aramaic language which literally means: "I will create as I speak".

Exhibitions

    2017 - METROPOLART BERLIN
    2016 - CARRE D'ARTISTES, NEW YORK
    2015 - CARRE D'ARTISTES, DEN HAAG, STRASSBOURG
    2014 - AMSTERDAM ART FAIRE
    2014 - SWEET ART GALLERY, NAPLES, FLORIDA
    2013 - GEORGIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM, TBILISI
    2013 - SIDNEY&BERNE DAVIS ART CENTRE, FLORIDA
    2012 - METROPOLART BONN & KÖLN
    2011 - 2017 CARREE D'ARTISTES.
              PARIS, BONN, AIX EN PROVENCE, COLOGNE, DEN HAAG, STRASSBOURG, NEW YORK
    2010 - LA PELLE & PIOCHET, AUX CHAUDRONNERIES DE MONTREUIL, PARIS
    2009 - BURROUGHS CHAPIN MUSEUM MYRTLE BEACH
              PERMANENT COLLECTION, FLORIDA
    2008 - SAMS ART HUB, WORLI MUMBAI, INDIA
    2007 - TAMPON GALLERY, PARIS
    2006 - ART FOREST ART GALLERY NEW YORK, FUKUOKA, JAPAN
    2005 - CHELSEA HOTEL, NEW YORK
    2005 - CHELSEA HOTEL, PERMANENT, NEW YORK
    2004 - THEXPO GALLERY, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
    2004 - DUMBO ART FESTIVAL, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
    2004 - GALLERY 63 PEARL STREET BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
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    2003 - SOHO 20 GALLERY CHELSEA, NEW YORK
    2003 - JAYSTREET JAN LARSEN FINE ART, BROOKLYN
    2003 - SOHO 20 GALLERY CHELSEA, NEW YORK
    2003 - FIREHOUSE TRIBECA, NEW YORK
    2002 - 4TH STREET GALLERY, NEW YORK
    2002 - GLACART, PARIS
    2001 - MELY ART, BARCELONA
    1998 - TOKYO SALOON, AOYAMA, TOKYO